FORMS AND METHODS OF FIGHTING THE PARTISAN (INSURGENT) MOVEMENT IN MILITARY CONFLICTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The article reveals the forms and methods of fighting the partisan (insurgent) movement in the military conflicts of the second half of the 20th century. In particular, there were considered the tactics of the French colonial administration activities against the National Liberation Front of Algeria (1954–1962), tactical techniques of fighting by units of American troops against the insurgents in Vietnam (1964–1975). There were covered views on the Soviet troops’ tactics of fighting against the insurgents in Afghanistan (1979–1989). There were highlighted the forms and methods of tactical actions of Russian Federation’s regular units in the counter-terrorist operation against insurgent formations in the Second Chechen War 1999–2000. After analysis of the available literature and sources on the organizing and conducting the fight against partisanship (insurgency) in military conflicts of the second half of the 20th century there was established that the forms of combating them, as in the first half of the 20th century, remained operations, combat and special actions. During all types of operational and combat activities there were used the same methods of fighting as during the liquidation of Basmatism in Central Asia (1918–1933), the “Kurkul uprising and banditry” in Ukraine (1920–1921), the nationalist underground in the North Caucasus in 1920–1930s, the struggle of the German Wehrmacht troops, SS special formations, security police and SD’s against Soviet partisans in 1941–1944, the liquidation of the formations of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and “forest brothers” in the Baltic countries in the 1940s–1950s