The urban guerrilla needs the following prerequisites to insure a mobility and speed unmatched by the police:

1. mechanization;
2. knowledge of the terrain;
3. the ability to destroy or interdict enemy communications; and
4. light weapons,

By insuring that operations are completed within a few minutes, and by leaving the scene in vehicles, the urban guerrilla retreats quickly, thereby avoiding capture.

The urban guerrilla must plan in detail, and make practice assaults, so as to avoid running up an alley with no outlet, or driving into a traffic jam, or sitting as if he were paralyzed waiting for a long traffic signal or street light.

The police must be made to pursue the guerrilla blindly without knowing his route of escape.

While the urban guerrilla flees effectively by making use of the terrain, the police cannot follow his trail, and soon give up their chase.

The urban guerrilla should launch his operation as far as possible from a police headquarters. The initial advantage of this is seen in that the farther the operation is conducted from the police, the greater the chances for escape.

Urban guerrilla security precautions must take into account the enemy's communications systems. The telephone is a primary target in denying the enemy access to information.

Even an enemy who learns of a guerrilla operation is restricted by his modern transportation and logistical support. He relies extensively on vehicles, thereby requiring more time because of the heavy traffic in large urban centers. Traffic is the foe of the enemy, and less so for us since we are moving away and ahead of him.

A safe security margin depends on the following tactics:

1. Design blockade or obstruction points to delay enemy pursuit, especially by use of abandoned or damaged vehicles which may be employed to impede enemy pursuit. Such vehicles should be stolen and have license tags that are either fake or stolen;
2. Use large trees, boulders, dig ditches, or alter traffic and direction signs, routing traffic into dead ends or detours;
3. Bury or place homemade mines in the route followed by police vehicles, or use gasoline or Molotov cocktails to set pursuit vehicles on fire; and,
4. Use machine gun or automatic rifle fire to knock out the engines and tires of pursuit vehicles.

The police and troops of the military fascists commonly seek to engage urban terrorists with heavy weapons and complicated equipment, coupled with elaborate tactical operations carried out by fully armed troops. The urban guerrilla responds with light, easily transported weapons that facilitate a speedy escape, and deny the enemy the open pitched battle he seeks. The urban guerrilla has but one mission, and that is to attack and retreat. Urban guerrillas who engage in pitched battle, with heavy weapons and heavy ammunition, lose precious advantage of mobility.

Urban police mounted on horses present no problem to the urban guerrilla in an automobile. The automobile can easily out-distance the horse, and accurate fire from an automobile can easily knock out the mounted policemen. Revolvers, Molotov cocktails, and grenades are equally effective against mounted police forces. The urban guerrilla on foot, on the other hand, presents an easier target for the mounted policeman. Ropes strung across narrow streets, strewing marbles on the surface, and cork stoppers can knock down both the policeman and the horse. The urban guerrilla has the double advantage of destroying either the horse or the mounted policeman.

While the helicopter is certainly faster than the horse, it too has little chance of catching the urban guerrilla. While the horse is too slow, the helicopter is too fast for the vehicle driven by the urban guerrilla. The guerrilla's vehicle is easily hidden in the mass of vehicles in large cities, and is hard to identify by a helicopter flying at 140 miles per hour. Furthermore, helicopters cannot land in narrow or crowded city streets, and are highly vulnerable to guerrilla ground fire when flying at a low altitude.