Insurgency Warfare:A Global History to the Present

by: Jeremy Black (Author)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date: 2023/6/29

Language: English

Print Length: 338 pages

ISBN-10: 1538179407

ISBN-13: 9781538179406

Book Description

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Weste-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-mode 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 govemental 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 “leaed” or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons leaed 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 forstudents of military history.

About the Author

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Weste-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-mode 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 govemental 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 “leaed” or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons leaed 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 forstudents of military history.

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