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A determined effort on the part of the Argentinian left was made at creating a  guerrilla front in Tucumán province. In 1974, Marxist guerrillas led by Roberto Santucho in the form of the People’s Revolutionary Army [ERP] took control of the remote province of Tucumán and declared it an independent state. In 1975 the Argentinian Army 5th Mountain Infantry Brigae under Brigadier-General Edgar Vilas was ordered to Tucumán to eradicate the insurgents and restore the province to the Argentinian state, and did so swiftly and ruthlessly.

A determined effort on the part of the Argentinian left was made at creating a  guerrilla front in Tucumán province. In 1974, Marxist guerrillas led by Roberto Santucho in the form of the People’s Revolutionary Army [ERP] took control of the remote province of Tucumán and declared it an independent state. In 1975 the Argentinian Army 5th Mountain Infantry Brigae under Brigadier-General Edgar Vilas was ordered to Tucumán to eradicate the insurgents and restore the province to the Argentinian state, and did so swiftly and ruthlessly.

It guerrilla campaign started with no more than 100 men and women of the ERP guerrilla company and ended with about 300 in the mountains (including reinforcements in the form of the elite Montoneros 65-strong Jungle Company that arrived in February 1976 and latter the ERP's ''Decididos de Córdoba'' Urban Company),which the Argentinian Army managed to defeat, but at a cost.

It guerrilla campaign started with no more than 100 men and women of the ERP guerrilla company and ended with about 300 in the mountains (including reinforcements in the form of the elite Montoneros 65-strong Jungle Company that arrived in February 1976 and latter the ERP's ''Decididos de Córdoba'' Urban Company)<ref>Guerrillas & Generals: The Dirty War in Argentina, Paul H. Lewis, p. 126, Praeger Paperback, 2001</ref>, which the Argentinian Army managed to defeat, but at a cost.

==Urban guerilla warfare==

==Urban guerilla warfare==