This book offers an analysis of key individuals who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of counterinsurgency (COIN).

Introduction: Introducing Warrior Scholars, Carlos Gaspar 1. Constructing and Deconstructing Warrior-Scholars, Andrew Mumford and Bruno C.Reis 2. Warrior Scholarship in the Age of Colonial Warfare: Charles E. Callwell and Small Wars, Daniel Whittingham 3. David Galula and Roger Trinquier: Two Warrior-Scholars, One French Late Colonial Counterinsurgency?, Bruno C. Reis 4. Warrior-Scholars in the United States Marine Corps: From the Small Wars in the Caribbean to the 'Three Block War' and Beyond, David Strachan-Morris 5. A Very Sharp Eye: Moshe Dayan's Counterinsurgency Legacy in Israel, Eitan Shamir 6. Low Intensity Operations in Theory and Practice: General Sir Frank Kitson as Warrior-Scholar, Huw Bennett and Rory Cormac 7. Warrior Scholarship in the Age of Globalised Insurgency: The Work of David Kilcullen, Andrew Mumford 8. Counterinsurgency American Style: David Petraeus and Twenty-First Century War, James A. Russell