Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071VLJJNR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book is published by Rowman & Littlefield.. This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. His sweeping study will be essential material for all students of military history. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states
Disappointing survey with few insights TT If you seek a comprehensive laundry list of insurgencies from the pre-modern through the modern, this is your book. But if you are looking for deep insight and analysis into counterinsurgency strategy and tactics, don't expect much here. The main theme of the book is sound: that insurgencies succeed and fail for a variety of factors (political will, ideology, terrain, armaments, tactics, foreign support, etc.) and that over-reliance on rigid counte