Basil Davidson: PARTISAN PICTURE "Their tactics could be summarized in a few general principles. The early Odreds lived and grew by eliminating police posts, capturing a few rifles here and a few there, gradually becoming bolder and more practised, seldom standing to fight, always on the move. From these early experiences there grew up a fairly general understanding of the only conditions that could offer hope of success: to maintain the highest possible degree of surprise, to attack the enemy in rear or in flank, to refuse battle on the enemy's terms, to avoid reprisals wherever possible but never to allow threat of them to excuse inaction."
