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Total Resistance

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The best "How to do" book that I've found for what now is called "4th Generation War". Most books on this topic are about how to fight against resistance fighters, i.e. "counter insurgency" - such as road blocks, house searches, etc.. This book is the opposite: how to do guerrilla/resistance/underground/5th Column. The technological parts is, granted, outdated. The theory and the organization of civilian resistance is the best that I've seen.

The book is a manual for the Swiss Army and population (Switzerland doesn't have an army; Switzerland IS an army) if and when Switzerland might be "conquered" by a foreign power. Yet its principles could be used in combating a domestic tyrant.

Given the current political situation, one has the disturbing impression that one reads this book for the future.

The Table of Contents (briefly):

Part I. ORGANIZATON AND CONDUCT OF GUERRILLA WARFARE
1. Purpose of Guerilla Warefare
2. Organizaton of Guerrilla Warfare
3. Tactics of Guerrilla Units
4. How an Enemy with Modern equipment will Operate Against Your Guerrilla Detachment

Part II: ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF THE CIVILIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT [best part of book]
1. Organization
2. Enemy Organization
3. Operations of the Resistance Movement

Closing Remarks

In his landmark book, Total Resistance, the Swiss Army Guide to Guerrila Warfare and Underground Operations, Major Von Dach has certainly expanded my mind and has shown through practical participation how all can resist tryanical invaders, whenever and wherever the forces of tyrany raise their ugly head. Despite the fact that it was writen in 1958 and released in the United States in 1965, the portons of the book especially devoted to the organization and mobilization of the occupied citizenry are still very much up to date when dealing with the means to combat and defeat those with tyranical designs on any population who's maxium "Death rather than Slavery!"

I received this book yesterday, and read it from cover to cover that afternoon.

Major Von Dach published this book in 1958, but its tactical information is invaluable even today. The good Major covers the major aspects of both passive and active resistance to an invading force, and the information he provides will be useful against oppresive tyrants everywhere.

I found this book to be well written, although there are a few mistakes in editing. The illustrations could have been drawn on a larger scale as well.

In my opinion, this book is a valuable resource for any freedom loving individual anywhere in the world.

I have always been interested in guerilla warfare but almost every book out there is written about how to counter and insurgency usually written by some US officer who has vague knowledge learned in some military college. Not this book its by an expert in guerilla warfare and is completely no holds bare in its information. Everything from using propaganda successfully and winning the trust of the local citizens to destroying bridges and spotting informants is covered in this book. the only complaint i have is that the text is somewhat small and hard to read on some pages and pictures are kind of blurry which is somewhat irritating. Aside from these minor problems I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in unconventional warfare, and in the troubling times we are in now who knows you might actually need this book someday to wage your own guerilla war.


P.S.
a person who reviewed the book said that guerilla war doesn't work and eventually is defeated.....well I guess he skipped the page and a half at the beginning that listed major successful guerilla conflicts, thats not even including the successful guerilla operations waged after 1956 when this book was first published

And never forget resistance is not futile!!!!

Good book overall. Two short comings. The first is that it is a bit dated. But that's due to when it was written. The principles are still good so it's not hard to figure out 'updates' yourself.

The one that cost it a star was that a lot of the book looks like a scan or copy of a earlier copy. So it has some issues with fuzzyness of the print.

Length:: 3:27 Mins

This is a review of the military instruction manual, Total Resistance, written by Major H. Von Dach.

This book should be in the training library of every Militia unit in America. If you can't muster to protect yourselves, you can revert to single man operations as resistance fighters.

This book gives a lot of great information, such as the sabotaging of telephone systems, power lines, train derailment, caching and hiding weapons and ammunition, ambushing, and many small tactical operations that a band of guerrillas could probably engage in and have a chance of success depending on their skill level.

If your interested in the history of Switzerland, than this is also the book for you, because the Swiss were pioneers in guerrilla warfare and maintaining neutrality.

This is an important book for all freedom loving Americans (not just military) who feel that they have a duty to defend America, and the Constitution of the United States, from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

This is a no-BS crash course in guerrilla warfare against occupation - better than any of the others. If you can't figure it out from this book, all the others combined won't help you.

It shows how very-minimally-equipped guerrillas can effectively make any area ungovernable to occupation governments - providing, of course, that there is widespread hostility there to the occapation government. And it makes clear how very few guerrillas are needed to do so.

It's the book the Swiss government issued to its civilians to prepare them to fight back against any enemy - but that Washington wouldn't dare pass out here in occupied Red Nation, because it's the divorce manual for occupied Red Nation!

Good book to read if your planning for the worst. Covers all the bases on what to do when an enemy takes control. Changes your mind set on alot of your own thoughts on what you would think you need to do. Pretty glad i bought this book, written more then a few years ago but it all still holds true today.