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with the reaction. or a North Amereuy epy and car carry out any kind of propaganda or war of nerves against tae enemy without . the need to consult the general command No firing group can remain inactive waiting for orders from above. Its obligation 1s to act. Any smgle urban guerrilla who wants to establish a firing group and begin action can do so and thus become : x a part of the organization. | This method of action eliminates the need for knowing who 1s Aca carrying out which actions. since there 1s tree mmiative and the only important point is to increase substantially the volume of urban guerrilla activity in order to wear out the government—and force it onto the defensive. The firing group is the instrument of organized action. Wath it. guerrilla operations and tactics are planned. launched, and carried through to success. The general command counts on the firing groups to carry out . ‘objectives of a strategic nature. and to do so in any part of the * country. For its part. it helps the firing groups with their difficulties and their needs. . The organization ts an indestructible network of firing groups. and of coordinations among them. that functions simply and practically with a general conimand that also participates inv the attacks: an organization which exists for no purpose other than pure and simple revolutionary action. The Logistics of the Urban Guerrilla te . Conventional logistics can be expressed by the formula CCEM: C — food (comida) C — fuel (combustivel) E — equipment ? ~ M—ammunition (municées) a , Conventional logistics refer to the maintenance problems for an army ot a regular armed force. transported tn velicles with fixed . bases and supply lines. is Urban quernllas, on the contrary. are not an army but small armed groups. intentionally fragmented. They have no vehicles nor fixed bases. Tifsir supply lines are precarious and insufficient, and have : no estabigshed base except in the rudimentary sense of an arms factory wathin a house. While the goal of conventional logistics 1s to supply the war needs of the gorillas to be used to repress urban and rural rebellion, urban gucrrilla logistics aim at sustaining operations and tactics which have nothing in common with a conventional war and are directed against x. ship and North American dominauon of the . the miltary «i . country. ¢ For the urban guerrilla, who starts [rom nothing and has no support sO at the beginning. logistics are expressed by the formula MDAMIE ; which tw ete tes cone.