Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents Since 1750
- ISBN-10
- 0415239346
- ISBN-13
- 9780415239349
- Series
- Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Ian Frederick William Beckett
Description
This book explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed governments, from eighteenth-century guerrilla warfare to contemporary urban terrorism. The tactics of guerrilla leaders such as Lawrence, Mao, Guevara and Marighela are examined and the works of counter-insurgency theorists such as Galleni, Callwell, Thompson and Kitson are analysed.
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