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LOCAL PEOPLE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATION DURING WORLD WAR II: CASE STUDY – ANTI-COMMUNIST VOLUNTEER MILITIA ZARA
Tomislav Ražnjević
orcid.org/0000-0002-1440-022X
Sažetak
The article briefly presents the basic traits of Anti-communist Volunteer Militia Zara as a specific organizational form for subsumption of local population into Italian anti-partisan efforts in North Dalmatia 1942–1943. According to relevant historical sources and interpretations, the article deals with the project development issues, from an idea conceptualization to a final realization and operational usage. It also considers some issues about an obtention of popular support and collaboration sustention. The article brings out a qualitative analysis of official propaganda about the militia, and examines ways how militia was profiled within a government-moulded common knowledge about the ongoing war. At the end, there is presented an author’s evaluation about militia’s implementation eficiacy inside overall counterinsurgency efforts.
Ključne riječi
Anti-communist Militia; asymmetric warfare; counter-insurgency; Dalmatia; fascism; Italy; Second World War
Hrčak ID:
149129
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Datum izdavanja:
15.7.2015.
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