Comandante Che: guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist, 1956–1967

Fighting and winning a guerrilla campaign is not simply a question of devising the proper strategy, applying the right tactics, or
electing the appropriate weapon. The object of the guerrilla is not so much to win a military engagement as to avoid losing it.
Guerrilla warfare, as Che fought and taught it, is a political and social struggle as well as a military conflict. If political factors do not favor the guerrillas, they will lose, as Che discovered in Bolivia. Ambushes, battles, and skirmishes figure prominently in the following account, but the analysis does not start and end with them. To assess Guevara’s career as a guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist, one must analyze it in its proper political context, examining Che’s ideological development; his personal relations with Fidel Castro; and even Soviet, Chinese, and American policies toward the CubanRevolution and Latin America." [from the preface]

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