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that could then be used for "establishing peoples governments and waging
campaigns against the enemy . 50 The Northern strategy would rely on more
"terroristic"
actions because the guerrilla would be less mobile and the
potential supporters outnumbered by the enemy . The dual fronts strategy
would split the oppressor's forces making it necessary for him to fight
many small battles across a wide area in which his own citizens were living
. The author foresaw that the revolution would spread from Northern
cities to Southern cities and then to the rural
areas where the emphasis
would be on small scale campaigns with the enemy and liberation of the community
. The U .S . Army and National Guard would be plagued with desertions .
The author stated that during this struggle the querrillas would be "extending
the war in a protracted manner ."
This campaign would lead to total
chaos and the enemy would be "unable to sustain his efforts against a protracted
guerrilla war whether it's 90 days, 9 years or a year . "51 This
statement seems to be the first reference by RAM that the black revolution
may be a protracted struggle .
The role of black soldiers in the U .S . Army was seen as very important
. It was an issue that appeared in a number of documents that describe
the war of liberation, but was put most succinctly in Message from RAM
Revolutionary Action Movement) the Black Liberation Front of the U .S .A . to
Afro-Americans in the United States Racist Imperialist Army . In this document,
written on July 4, 1965, RAM asks black soldiers, "Why are you in
Charlie's Army" RAM recognized that black soldiers were waging a war
against racist white soldiers and officers but called on
them to come home
501, Strategy and Tactcis of Black Revolution,"' Revolutionary Nationalist ,
(August 1965),~_p . 10 .
51 Ibid ., p . 10 .