Title: Insurgencies and counterinsurgencies :
Authors: Shamir, Eitan,; Heuser, Beatrice,
Date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: ix, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: U
Abstract: This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the ways of war of particular insurgent movements, and the standard operational procedures of states and occupation forces to suppress them. Through case studies ranging from British, American and French counterinsurgency to the IRA and the Taliban, they show how 'national styles' evolve, influenced by transnational trends, ideas and practices. They examine whether we can identify a tendency to resort to a particular pattern of fighting and, if so, whether this is dictated by constants such as geography and climate, or by the available options, or else whether there exists a particular 'strategic culture' or 'national style'. Their findings show that 'national style' is not eternal but can undergo fundamental transformations. --
Contents: True to form? Questioning the British counterinsurgency tradition / Robert Egnell and David H. Ucko -- French counterinsurgency in the era of the Algerian wars, 1830-1962 / Jacques Frémeaux and Bruno C. Reis -- Russian counterinsurgency in perspective / Stephen Blank -- Crackdown : insurgency, potential insurgency and counterinsurgency in modern China -- You go to COIN with the military you have : the United States and 250 years of irregular war / David E. Johnson -- From fighting 'Francs-Tireurs' to genocide : German counterinsurgency in the Second World War / Henning Pieper -- Israel's counterinsurgency experience / Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir -- National liberation, Algerian 'style'? / Jacques Frémeaux -- Irish Republican insurgency and terrorism, 1969-2007 / Jim Storr -- The evolution of the Palestinian resistance / Carmit Valensi -- The Taliban / Rob Johnson -- Guerrilla and counter-guerrilla Greece : tradition and change / Spyridon Plakoudas -- Syria : insurrection and suppression 2011-2016 / Eyal Zisser -- Beyond national styles : towards a connected history of Cold War counterinsurgency / Élie Tenenbaum -- Universal toolbox, national styles or divergence of civilisations? / Beatrice Heuser and Eitan Shamir.