PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE TayacanPREPACE Guerrilla warfare is essentially a political war. For this teason, its area of operations goes beyond the territorial limits of conventional warfare, penetrating the political being "par excellence" itself: the “political animal" defined by Aristoteles. In effect, the human being must be considered as the Priority objective in a political w And viewed as the military target of guerrilla warfare, the most critical point of the human being is the mind. Once the mind has been reached, the “political animal* has been vanquished, without necessarily having received any shots. Guerrilla warfare emerges and grows in a political environment; in the constant struggle to dominate that area of the political mentality which is inherent in évery human being, and which collectively constitutes the "environment" in which guerrilla warfare moves, and which is precisely the arena in which its triumph or defeat is defined. This concept of guerrilla warfare as a political war turns Psychological Operations into the factor that determines the results. The target, then, are the minds of the population, the entire population: Our troops, the enemy troops, and the civil population. This book is a guerrilla training manual for Psychological Operations, and it is applied to the specific case of the Christian and democratic crusade being conducted in Nicaragua by the Freedom Commandos. Welcome!