Guerrilla

This thesis analyses the United States Marine Corps’ counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam between March 1965 and November 1968, filling a major gap in the existing literature by forensically examining the primary source records maintained by the United States Marines to produce…

This dissertation is about why big states lose small wars. Contrary to prior analyses of asymmetric conflict which hold that actors' relative power best explains outcomes, I argue that relative strategy matters more than relative power. I make my case by focusing on asymmetric c…

In 1975, the Vietminh (term used to denote North Vietnamese who held Communist sympathies) won their crusade to unite North Vietnam with the South. It was as much a Civil War as a war of resistance against foreign invasion. In order to understand how the Communist Vietminh won, …

This dissertation explores the way in which La guerra de Galio , by Héctor Aguilar Camín and Guerra en el paraíso, by Carlos Montemayor, depict non-fictional events, mainly the Mexican guerrilla movement during the Seventies. I discuss the events that are part of the historical …