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What is the difference between partisans, militias, guerillas and terrorists?
Where do you draw the line?
Are they brave for fighting an overwhelming enemy or cowardly for using unfair tactics and not facing the enemy in the open like a regular military?
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>What is the difference between partisans, militias, guerillas and terrorists?
It all depends which end of the gun you happen to be behind.
>Where do you draw the line?
wherever I feel like
>Are they brave for fighting an overwhelming enemy or cowardly for using unfair tactics and not facing the enemy in the open like a regular military?
There is no honor in killing. Only death. No matter how you do it, taking a life is taking a life.
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Most of it depends on point of view but there are some specific traits:
>Partisans
Typically people of a nation that are fighting an occupying force
>Militia
An irregular army comprised of a local civilian populace
>Guerrillas
Anyone using guerilla warfare. Often used when the fighters are not actually native to the nation they are fighting in. See the Congo.
>Terrorists
A bit more vague but typically anyone who attacks civilians or infrastructure for the sole purpose of creating fear to push a political or religious agenda.
On the bravery/cowardly aspect it is kind of irrelevant. Use whatever works but be aware of the drawbacks. Hiding amongst civilians gets civilians targeted.
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>>31645703
just wanna say that's a good answer
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>>31645627
Those things are used interchangeably because the people they describe do similar things, but they refer to different aspects.
Partisans are members of a political party, usually the communist party or its offshoots. Some partisans in world war two were Nazis or nationalists, like Stepan Bandera.
Militias are citizens who aren't full-time professional soldiers.
guerillas are fighters who operate behind enemy lines (or in non-linear theatres) and do hit and run attacks and raids to disrupt their enemies.
terrorists attack non-strategic or marginal strategic targets to influence political outcomes.
Most of the time more than one of those things will apply to people doing any of those activities.
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What is the difference between me and you?
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>>31645691
*tips fedora*
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>>31645703
So in which category would you place the following:
-Pavel and Jacque picking off occupying Nazis with gramps hunting rifle
-Swissbros fighting an occupying force using sabotage and small unit raids, backed and supported by the army
-a Provo shooting policemen and blowing up buildings in Northern Ireland
-volunteer units in Ukraine
-the Taliban
-U.S. citizens defending against an invading force, both "a rifle in every window" and semi-organized militia groups.
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>>31645751
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>>31645703
>>Partisans
Like the french maquis vs the third reich or the Tasliban vs the USA.
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>>31645758
depends on which side you are on, and who is reporting it to who
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>>31645758
>>-Pavel and Jacque picking off occupying Nazis with gramps hunting rifle
Partisan
-Swissbros fighting an occupying force using sabotage and small unit raids, backed and supported by the army
guerilla
>>-a Provo shooting policemen and blowing up buildings in Northern Ireland
terrorist attacking the forces of the state he claims loyalty too ie twat.
>>-volunteer units in Ukraine
militia
>>-the Taliban
partians
>>-U.S. citizens defending against an invading force, both "a rifle in every window" and semi-organized militia groups.
guerilla/militia depending
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>>31645691
deep
shame peace is never an option
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