This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an up-to-date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counterinsurgencies. In order to contain this wide-ranging topic w…
This collection of articles and case studies analyze the relationship between African insurgencies and the local societies in which they are set, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and the relationship between the insurgencies and the wider worl…
Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government-made up of Eur…
Forfatterens formål med bogen er at behandle nogle af de mest fundamentale spørgsmål i forbindelse med krigsførelse til alle tider: Hvem udkæmper krige? Hvad drejer de sig om? For hvad føres der krig? Hvordan føres der krig? Hvorfor føres der krig? Bogen beskriver således krigsf…
"India is the world's tenth-largest economy and possesses the world's fourth-largest military. The subcontinent houses about one-fifth of the world's population and its inhabitants are divided into various tribes, clans and ethnic groups following four great religions: Buddhism,…
"In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan ends. It is a book about future conflicts and future cities, about the challenges and opportunities…
This examination of Argentina's "Dirty War" analyses the causes, describes the ideologies that motivated both sides, and explores the consequences of all-or-nothing politics.
Traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary from his youth, to his relationship with Fidel Castro, to his untimely demise. Biography of Che Guevara, drawing from Soviet archives, personal letters, and other sources to discuss the early life, revolutionary acti…
"The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru's history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s-1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path's initial successes we…
