Abstract

The past century has given countless examples of application of guerrilla war. Particularly noteworthy are the use cases during the last civil war. In such cases, the guerrilla struggle advocated by the goal – the conquest of political power. The urgency of this problem is determined by the fact that in specific military operations that characterize the civil war, when no distinction between peace and war, front and rear, between permitted and prohibited state and regular army lose the monopoly on violence begin to apply militias, that have arisen during the internal war. War ceases to be a passive instrument of state policy, exempt from age restrictions. Under these conditions, the guerrilla war, which the interstate war was only a subsidiary means been singled out, freed from state control, acquires qualities characteristic of the civil war, becomes a formidable weapon in an independent and dominant species are not noble fight. The purpose of this paper is to highlight laws of guerrilla war as a form of civil war. In a civil war in the arena goes insurgent partyzanstvo, formed spontaneously on the initiative of the people and not acting in the interests of regular, the government army, and against it, thus entering the fray with existing state machine. The partisans begin creating structures of the future of the state apparatus, whose task management system implementation in the field. The main principle of guerrilla tactics during the сivil War, when the forces of the rebel side had numerous compared with the opposing party is to inflict maximum damage to the government troops with minimal losses on their part. All methods of guerrilla warfare tactics with a goal by exhaustion and disorganization, involvement in minor skirmishes, undermining the material foundations reduce combat capability enemy force opposing sides go. Guerrilla war during the internal armed conflict, which is a civil war, a means of winning political power that arises from revolutionary conditions and passing successively phase of development, contributing to the destruction of the state structures of the ruling regime.