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==Rural guerrilla warfare==

==Rural guerrilla warfare==

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 Brigade was ordered to Tucumán to eradicate the insurgents and restore the province to the Argentinian state.

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.<ref>''ERP guerrillas set up a rural front in Tucuman province in a bid to elevate the insurgency into its final phase, actually claiming liberated areas — liberated, that is, from governmental control.'' Annual of Power and Conflict, Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1976</ref>In 1975 the Argentinian Army 5th Mountain Infantry Brigade was ordered to Tucumán to eradicate the insurgents and restore the province to the Argentinian state.

The Marxist guerrilla campaign in northern Argentina started with no more than 100 men and women of the ERP's  ''Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez'' (Mountain Company) and ended with about 300 in the mountains of Tucumán (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 5th Mountain Brigade and parachute units from 4th Airborne Brigade managed to defeat, but at a cost.

The Marxist guerrilla campaign in northern Argentina started with no more than 100 men and women of the ERP's  ''Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez'' (Mountain Company) and ended with about 300 in the mountains of Tucumán (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 5th Mountain Brigade and parachute units from 4th Airborne Brigade managed to defeat, but at a cost.