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"guerilla warfare" not the monkey...

"Guerrilla, from the Spanish term guerra, or War, with the -illa ending diminutive, could be translated as small war. The term was invented in Spain to describe the tactics used to resist the French regime instituted by Napoleon Bonaparte."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_warfare

Gorilla warfare was first used during the American Revolution in 1780. Since the English outnumbered the Colonist, the minutemen found the English was hiding behind trees, shooting once or two than moving to another location thus appearing to the enemy that it was doing battle with a larger army that it actually was. Today gorilla warfar means an army is not attacking directly but using tricks and surprise raids to attack a larger army. Right now in Iraq the insurgents are using gorilla warfare against the Americans. It was coined by an American revolution general who came up with the idea.

I don't think thats the correct form. It would rather be "guerrilla warfare".

Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from the Spanish guerrilla meaning little war, and used to describe small combat groups and the individual members of such groups.

Guerrilla warfare operates with small, mobile and flexible combat groups called cells, without a front line. Guerrilla warfare is one of the oldest forms of asymmetric warfare. Primary contributors to modern theories of guerrilla war include Mao Zedong, Wendell Fertig, Regis Debray, Vo Nguyen Giap, Josip Broz Tito, Michael Collins and Che Guevara. Later students of guerrilla warfare included Swiss Major Hans von Dach who wrote the now widely available Swiss Army field manual "Total Resistance".

What you know as gorilla warfare is a computer game.

Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, three of the most incendiary nations in Africa, are also home to some of Africa's rarest apes. Living high in the Virunga volcanoes is the last surviving population of mountain gorillas, or as they are officially known, Gorilla gorilla beringei. Only 600 of these easygoing, extremely shy herbivores remain. Craig Stanford, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles examines the factors which will ultimately decide the fate of these magnificent creatures. (Stanford studies gorillas and chimpanzees

. Guerilla warfare. It is Spanish for raiding party. In french, I think the word comes from the word for "war". It is unconventional warfare, such as the kind used by the Viet Cong. Gorilla warfare would be the state of throwing bananas at the other side.

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it dates back to the time when shivaji used to reign maharashtra. it was a tactic that was plotted by him to capture his enemies. as per the plan shivaji and his associates used to hide behind rocks or some hide out and wage war during night or anyother time when the enemy is least expecting it.

It is actually "guerilla" war fare. I think it is sort of Machiavellian... win using any tactics, any advantages at your disposal. It's probably not the actual definition of the term, but it's how I understand it.

Gorilla warfare

[by Ken Silverstein; published in Guerillas in the Mist, Washington Babylon, Harper's Magazine (January 1995)]

1991

EVENTS: Fighting, which had begun the previous fall, increased between the repressive Hutu-dominated government of Juvenal Habyarimana and the guerrillas of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

The war led to increased human-rights violations. According to Amnesty International's 1991 report, "Dozens of members of the minority Tutsi ethnic group, including possible prisoners of conscience, were detained. There were reports of torture and 'disappearances.' Hundreds of extrajudicial executions by members of the security forces and vigilante groups were reported."

George Bush increased U.S. aid to Rwanda from $9 million to $15 million.

PRESS COVERAGE: Despite the outbreak of warfare, journalists early in the year reported hopeful signs about Rwanda's future. The cause for optimism: scientists were reporting an increase in the population of mountain gorillas to 306, up from 242 in 1981.

A brief January 20 dispatch in the Orlando Sentinel said that conservationists were "heartened by the most recent census of mountain gorillas, the animals slain scientist Dian Fossey tried to protect." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on the encouraging trend on April 17, after a renowned ape researcher mentioned it during a lecture at a local university. Possibly because editors felt the country's story was hopelessly complicated, neither of these articles mentioned that there was a war taking place in Rwanda.

1992

EVENTS: Casualties mounted; human-rights groups reported that roughly 2,000 civilians had been killed in the fighting and hundreds of others had been raped or tortured. In one particularly bloody incident, 150 Tutsi were killed and many others injured during a March attack by pro-government groups of armed Hutu. Western weaponry poured in, including $2.3 million in arms bought from the United States. Mass demonstrations early in the year led Habyarimana to appoint opposition leader Dismas Nsengiyaremye as prime minister. The latter's national-unity government was shaken in November when Justice Minister Stanislas Mbonampeka resigned his post, citing a lack of cooperation from security forces.

PRESS COVERAGE: Anguish reached fever pitch in midyear, when a male silverback gorilla known as Mrithi, Sigourney Weaver's costar in the movie Gorillas in the Mist, became the first ape casualty of the war (apparently the accidental victim of an edgy military patrol).

In a lengthy report on May 28, the Chicago Tribune lauded the victim as "a magnificent, gentle animal with many human characteristics." The Christian Science Monitor ran an eight-hundred-word obituary on Mrithi, lamenting that the "needless snuffing of [the ape's] short, noble life leaves a void we will not soon see filled."

1993

EVENTS: It was another bad year for human rights. The U.N. special rapporteur visited in April and found that government forces had murdered some 2,300 civilians since the conflict with the RPF erupted in 1990. For its part, the rebel army was reportedly responsible for the arbitrary killing of up to 300 civilians during 1993.

PRESS COVERAGE: More stories on life in the gorilla zone. The New York Times ran a May 17 op-ed piece--its only such offering on Rwanda between 1991 and 1993--warning that Dian Fossey's former gorilla camp, smack in the center of a combat zone, was badly imperiled. With a passion unmatched in any journalistic account about the human suffering of Rwanda's war, Rutgers anthropology professor H. Dieter Steklis bitterly charged that protecting the apes was "not high on the world's agenda of problems to solve." He urged U.N. action to protect the apes, proclaiming, "There is not one gorilla to spare."

The grave threat to Fossey's camp was also the subject of stories in Newsweek and the Houston Chronicle. The lengthy, angry piece in the latter, by Joseph Verrengia, said that recent damage to the compound had left scientists "sputtering with rage" and "moved to tears." Verrengia mentioned the war's human toll only in writing that "the hunger and desperation of a million war refugees" had made Rwanda a less "enticing place for visiting scientists to work."

A May 20 Reuters story echoed this sense of priorities. The report led with the news that thirty-six apes had been reported AWOL from the Virunga mountain region following an RPF offensive. The gorillas were also "threatened by land mines planted in the ... civil war," said the article, which casually noted near the end that "the conflict has made more than 350,000 people homeless and runined the lives of close to one million."

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