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Accepted Paper:
Learning by tradition: Vietnamese influence on the FARC-EP
Óscar Moreno-Martínez
(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
David Spencer
(William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies)
Liliana Duica-Amaya
(Georgetown University)
¿How the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare tradition influenced the FARC-EP strategy, tactic, and technology?
Long abstract:
¿How the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare tradition influenced the FARC-EP strategy, tactic, and technology? Through the examination of the various ways in which a guerrilla group learns, we analyze how the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare tradition influenced the FARC-EP strategy, tactics, and technology. Based on interviews and historical materials, we document a phenomenon of learning by tradition. It refers to the processes by which comprehensive perspective is gained from a legacy that has been constituted through layers; in other words: the local adaptation/transformation of Mao’s PPW, the Bolshevik’s insurrectionary war, the Vietnamese version of both plus its own experience and the Cuban, Salvadorian and Colombian filters. We track the FARC-EP early reception of literature on Vietnamese and Maoist guerrilla strategy and tactics, training in Vietnamese methods from secondary and tertiary parties, and direct learning by traveling to Vietnam and receiving training near Hanoi in 1990.