Beschreibung:
Ian F. W. Beckett here 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.
Introduction, 1. The roots of insurgency, 2. The roots of counter-insurgency, 3. Resistance and the partisan, 4. Mao Tse-tung and revolutionary warfare, 5. Formative experiences, 6. 'Wars of national liberation'?, 7. The transition to urban insurgency, 8. Insurgency and the superpowers, 9. Forward to the past, Index