Guerilla warfare

Assassinations

Insurgent groups have often employed assassination as a tool to further their causes. Assassinations provide several functions for such groups, namely the removal of specific enemies and as propaganda tools to focus the attention of media and politics on their cause. Assassinations were notably used as a tactic of guerilla warfare during the Irish War of Independence, the Troubles, the Basque conflict, the Italian Years of Lead, the Vietnam War, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.