Insurgency Warfare - A Global History to the Present

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Western-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-modern 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 governmental 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 "learned" or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons learned 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 for all students of military history.

Sommario

Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Insurgency to 1500
3 Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700
4 Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century
5 Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century
6 The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-1940
7 Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60
8 The Fall of Empires, 1960-80
9 The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s
10 After the Cold War, 1990s
11 Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s
12 A World without Shape? The Situation since 2010
13 Speculations about the Future
14 Conclusions
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Index
About the Author

Info autore

Jeremy Black is a pre-eminent military historian, thinker and strategist. His publications include The French and Napoleonic Wars, A History of Artillery, Importance of Being Poirot; The World of James Bond; and A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Exeter.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeremy Black
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 a 22 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.2023
• EAN: 9781538179413
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7941-3
• Pagine: 338
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; USA, Russia, European History, Asia, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / World, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / United States, Terrorism, armed struggle, United States of America, USA, Asian History, African History, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet