Insurgency warfare: a global history to the present

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French...

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Main Author: Black, Jeremy 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Rowman & Littlefield 2023
Edition:Second edition
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war. Interweaving thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views.Tracing insurgencies ranging from China to Africa to Latin America, Black highlights the widely differing military and political dimensions of each conflict. He weighs how, and why, lessons were learned or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons learned by contemporaries, the ways in which norms developed within militaries and societies, and their impact on doctrine and policy. His sweeping study of insurrectionary warfare and its counterinsurgency counterpart will be essential reading for all students of military history
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
PrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction2 Insurgency to 15003 Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-17004 Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century5 Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century6 The Ideology of People s War Refracted, 1900-19407 Insurrections at a Height, 1940-608 The Fall of Empires, 1960-809 The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s10 After the Cold War, 1990s11 Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s12 A World without Shape? The Situation since 201013 Speculations about the Future14 ConclusionsNotesSelected Further ReadingIndexAbout the Author
Physical Description:xiii, 323 Seiten
ISBN:9781538179413
9781538179406