Guerrilla

Venezuela is quietly preparing for a possible U.S. military attack by deploying outdated Russian-made weapons and training forces for a nationwide guerrilla-style resistance, according to planning documents and sources familiar with the matter.

The strategy — described internally as “prolonged resistance” — reflects President Nicolás Maduro’s acknowledgment that his armed forces are ill-equipped to face the United States in a conventional war. Washington’s recent military buildup in the Caribbean and President Donald Trump’s comments suggesting that “the land is going to be next” after anti-narcotics strikes near Venezuela have deepened Caracas’s fears of invasion.

In what officials call a dual-defense …