People's War
The people's war is a military-historical , but also ideological term and a war image that comes from the 19th century and stands for a protracted war that is waged with large armies and is not limited to a specific objective. The opposite term is cabinet war .
The Wars of Liberation of 1813–1815 are an example of a people's war, but also the proclamation of the Total War by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in the Third Reich . Helmuth von Moltke declared in the Reichstag in May 1890 that the time of cabinet wars was over "- we only have the people's war now", and that the threat to peace is no longer with the governments, but with the peoples.
The term is also often used by ideologically controlled states such as China to emphasize the full scope of the means to be used in the fight against ethnic marginalized groups. China wages people's wars against terrorists , Tibetans and Uyghurs .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stig Förster : In the realm of the absurd: The causes of the First World War . In: Bernd Wegner (editor): How wars arise. On the historical background of conflicts between states . Ferdinand Schönigh, Paderborn, 2nd, revised edition 2003, ISBN 3-506-74473-9 , p. 249.
- ↑ Youth 1918-1945 | Contemporary witness. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Bernd Schönemann : People, Nation, Nationalism, Mass . In: Otto Brunner , Werner Conze and Reinhart Koselleck (eds.): Basic historical concepts . Vol. 7, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, p. 397.
- ↑ : "People's War in China" . In: Spiegel Online . tape 3 , January 10, 1977 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
- ^ Till Fähnders, Beijing: China: People's War against Crime . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 1, 2019]).
- ↑ Bernhard Zand: "NYT" report on China's Gulag system: Beijing's "People's War" against the Uyghurs . In: Spiegel Online . November 17, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).