Editing Land mine (section)

===Guerrilla warfare===
None of the conventional tactics and norms of mine warfare applies when they are employed in a guerrilla role:{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
* The mines are not used in defensive roles (for specific position or area).
* Mined areas are not marked.
* Mines are usually placed singly and not in groups covering an area.
* Mines are often left unattended (not covered by fire).

Land mines were commonly deployed by insurgents during the [[South African Border War]], leading directly to the development of the first dedicated [[MRAP|mine-protected armoured vehicles]] in South Africa.<ref name=SurviveRide>{{cite book |last1=Camp |first1=Steve |last2=Helmoed-Römer |first2=Heitman |title=Surviving the Ride: A pictorial history of South African Manufactured Mine-Protected vehicles |date=November 2014 |pages=19–34 |publisher=30 Degrees South |location=Pinetown |isbn=978-1-928211-17-4}}</ref> Namibian insurgents used anti-tank mines to throw South African military convoys into disarray before attacking them.<ref name=SurviveRide /> To discourage detection and removal efforts, they also laid anti-personnel mines directly parallel to the anti-tank mines.<ref name="Mines1">{{cite web |title=Namibia |url=http://archives.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?url=lm/2004/namibia.html |website=Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor |access-date=March 19, 2019 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803113024/http://archives.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?url=lm%2F2004%2Fnamibia.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This initially resulted in heavy South African military and police casualties, as the vast distances of road network vulnerable to insurgent [[sapper]]s every day made comprehensive detection and clearance efforts impractical.<ref name=SurviveRide /> The only other viable option was the adoption of mine-protected vehicles which could remain mobile on the roads with little risk to their passengers even if a mine was detonated.<ref name=SurviveRide /> South Africa is widely credited with inventing the [[v-hull]], a vee-shaped hull for armoured vehicles which deflects mine blasts away from the passenger compartment.<ref name=SurviveRide />

During the ongoing [[Syrian Civil War]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/new-landmine-emergency-threatens-communities-iraq-and-syria|title=New landmine emergency threatens communities in Iraq and Syria|author=Mines Advisory Group|date=January 11, 2017|website=reliefweb.int|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011152309/https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/new-landmine-emergency-threatens-communities-iraq-and-syria|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21719830-clearing-syria-and-iraq-unexploded-bombs-and-booby-traps-could-take|title=Islamic State is losing land but leaving mines behind|date=March 30, 2017|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=March 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307161459/https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21719830-clearing-syria-and-iraq-unexploded-bombs-and-booby-traps-could-take|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/treacherous-battle-free-iraq-landmines-150209103531036.html|title=The treacherous battle to free Iraq of landmines|last1=Cousins|first1=Sophie|date=February 20, 2015|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011201525/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/treacherous-battle-free-iraq-landmines-150209103531036.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/20/yemen-houthi-saleh-forces-using-landmines|title=Yemen: Houthi-Saleh Forces Using Landmines|date=April 20, 2017|publisher=Human Rights Watch|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=March 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322202754/https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/20/yemen-houthi-saleh-forces-using-landmines|url-status=live}}</ref> land mines have been used for both defensive and guerrilla purposes.