Guerillawar in Western-Sahara: Polisario vs Marocc and Mauritanie

Abstract

In this article I will introduce the guerilla war fought between the Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco and Mauritania. Even today, this war provides many lessons regarding desert kind of counter-insurgency operations. Besides reviewing the nec-essary activities for conducting a successful guerilla war, I also delineate the most efficient methods for defending against one, since this is the first operation, where the Moroccans has achieved long-standing results by the construction of a system of Fortifications (Berm), as well as by the restructuring of its tactics and the units sta-tioned in the Western Saharan region.