Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies

<p><em>Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies</em> 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. Insurgency remains one of the most prevalent forms of conflict and presents a crucial challenge to the international community governments and the military.<br>In addition to examining the tactics of guerrilla leaders such as Lawrence Mao Guevara and Marighela <em>Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencie</em>s also analyses the counter-insurgency theories of Gallieni Callwell Thompson and Kitson. It explores such conflicts as:<br>* the American War of Independence<br>* Napoleon's campaign in Spain<br>* the wars of decolonisation<br>* the superpowers in Vietnam and Afghanistan<br>* conflicts in Northern Ireland Sierra Leone and Colombia.</p>