This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara's most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America.

Guerrilla Warfare is a book by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara that was written right after the Cuban Revolution and published in 1961.

Guevara intended it to be a manual on guerrilla warfare, elaborating the foco theory (foquismo) for other revolutionary movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, but the book was also studied by counter-revolutionary military schools.

While many draw parallels with Mao's "On Guerrilla Warfare Guevara", he claimed he had not read the book, the book draws on the lessons of fighting during the Cuban Revolutionary War which in turn were informed by two books from the Spanish Civil War, Nuevas guerras and Medicina contra invasión, stressing the need for an underpinning political motivation to guerrilla methods, organization and supply.

However, Guevara emphasizes that guerrilla warfare is a favorable method only against totalitarian regimes, (such as the revolutionary war against the Batista dictatorship in Cuba), where political opposition and legal civil struggle is impossible to conduct.

Guevara dedicated the book to his recently deceased comrade Camilo Cienfuegos, "who should have read and corrected it, but whose fate prevented him from carrying out the task".

Table of contents:

CHAPTER I: General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare

  • 1 Essence of Guerrilla Warfare
  • 2 Guerrilla Strategy
  • 4 Guerrilla Tactics
  • 5 Warfare on Favorable Ground
  • 6 Suburban Warfare

CHAPTER II: The Guerrilla Band

  • 1 Guerilla Fighter: Social Reformer
  • 2 Guerilla Fighter as Combatant
  • 3 Organization of a Guerrilla Band
  • 5 Beginning, Development, And End Of A Guerilla War

CHAPTER III: Organization Of A Guerilla Front

  • 1 Supply
  • 2 Civil Organization
  • 3 The Role of a Woman
  • 4 Medical Problems
  • 5 Sabotage
  • 6 War Industry
  • 7 Propaganda
  • 8 Intelligence
  • 9 Training and Indoctrination
  • 10 The Organization of The Army of a Revolutionary Movement

APPENDICES

  • 1 Organization in Secret of the First Guerrilla Band
  • 2 Defense of Power That Has Been Won

Epilogue

  • 1 Analysis of Cuban Situation, Its Present and Its Future