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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
I F W Beckett |
| ISBN: | 0415239338 9780415239332 0415239346 9780415239349 9780203402450 0203402456 |
| OCLC Number: | 46401992 |
| Description: | ix, 268 p. ; c 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The roots of insurgency -- The roots of counter-insurgency -- Resistance and the partisan -- Mao Tse-tung and revolutionary warfare -- Formative experiences -- 'Wars of national liberation'? -- The transition to urban insurgency -- Insurgency and the superpowers -- Forward to the past. |
| Series Title: | Warfare and history. |
| Responsibility: | Ian F.W. Beckett. |
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Abstract:
Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from eighteenth-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today. Insurgency remains one of the most prevalent forms of conflict and presents a crucial challenge to the international community, governments and the military. In addition to examining the tactics of guerrilla leaders such as Lawrence, Mao, Guevara and Marighela, Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies also analyses the counter-insurgency theories of Gallieni, Callwell, Thompson and Kitson. It explores such conflicts as: * the American War of Independence * Napoleon's campaign in Spain * the wars of decolonisation * the superpowers in Vietnam and Afghanistan * conflicts in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and Colombia.
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