Organization and Development of the Auxiliary

 

Guerrilla Days In Ireland, Tom Barry

(Over the course of this blog’s life, I’ve received a lot of correspondence from those wondering how they fit into the concept of a resistance organization as the auxiliary, since they are “too old or infirm” to actively engage the regime’s security forces as members of the subversive underground or paramilitary guerrilla force. –J.M.)

The auxiliary includes, or may include all those individuals who are not full-time active participants in the paramilitary guerrilla force or the subversive underground, but who are sympathetic to the resistance or actively voice support to the resistance and are willing to lend assistance. Traditionally the activities of the auxiliary have been directed and controlled by the area command authority (For all you “leaderless resistance” believers out there, you’re going to have some variation of an area command authority, whether you want to believe it or not. Attempting to do anything without the organization and planning coordination between cells will result in blue-on-blue and wasted efforts as cells hit the same targets or otherwise get in each others way).

This coordination allows that assistance that is available from the auxiliary to be “spent” in the most efficient way, to leverage it into the most support for the resistance as possible. Otherwise, the auxiliary will see its efforts wasted as some assets are over-used by their local buddies, and other assets, sorely needed elsewhere, go to waste. While a resistance effort is necessarily local at the tactical level, tactics exist solely to facilitate the strategic end-goals. A bunch of guys with similar views (or as we’ve all seen, sometimes vastly different views all labeled the same way…..)

committing acts of violence against the regime are not a resistance movement. While they MAY coalesce into an organized resistance, history has repeatedly demonstrated to us that more often than not, they will be individually run to ground, exterminated, and written off by the victorious regime as common criminals and brigands. Since the victor writes the history books……

An individual’s specific contribution to the resistance will depend largely on their socio-economic status and roles and their occupation (while a stripper or bartender may provide crucial intelligence-gathering/collection roles facilitating a specific raid or ambush by the guerrilla force, or simply drop some “roofies” into the drink of a senior member of the security force, setting up a snatch by the subversive underground, a local farmer or homesteader may “only” provide assistance by providing some extra harvest to feed the troops or to be sold on the black market to finance another operation. On the other hand, the farmer may end up providing space in a barn for a way-station on a transportation route, or an extra barn may be used as a guerrilla hospital…),

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