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BASIC TACTICS
employ all means at hand. These include runners, messengers on
horseback, messengers on bicycles, secret couriers posted in advance
for transmitting information, as well as transmittal by sentries, and
even signals and pre-established signs, etc.
3. METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING REPORTS
1. A network for important correspondence should be set up.
Reports of an urgent character can best be transmitted by messengers
on horseback. When this is impossible, we should send out
reliable individuals particularly good at going on foot. It is also
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possible to arrange in advance for the transmittal of secret letters.
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There are times, too, when we must send out several men, each of
them taking a different route, to make certain that the report in question
will reach its destination. (This method should be limited to
the most important reports.)
2. As for ordinary reports that are not particularly important,
they are commonly transmitted by runners or messengers on bicycles.
There are times when one can also use faithful individuals from
among the local population who are thoroughly familiar with the
routes to carry such reports.
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4. SIGNALS FOR COMMUNICATIONS
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For the sake of convenience in guiding each guerrilla group or
unit by day or by night, in its actions in mountainous terrain or in
forests, the commander of a guerrilla unit should establish in ad-
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vance a certain number of basic signals and signs (such as signals
fires at night, smoke signals by day, coloured pennants, flags, semaphore
signaling by flags, paper signals, whistles, bugle calls, etc.).
5. DISPOSITIONS REGARDING ROUTES OF
COMMUNICATION IN THE REAR
Should we or should we not destroy the routes of communication
in the enemy’s rear? We must reflect in detail about this problem.
If we conclude that, in the future, our own army will not need
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