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Details
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
20.09.2025
Verlag
Lurking Fear PublishingSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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1478 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798232373634
Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency: A Historical Analysis - From Ancient Tactics to Modern Counter-Insurgency
From Sun Tzu's ancient strategies to today's cyber warfare, this comprehensive examination traces the evolution of irregular warfare across 2,500 years of human conflict. Drawing on extensive historical analysis and contemporary case studies, this definitive work reveals how guerrilla tactics have shaped the course of history and continue to challenge conventional military thinking in the modern era.
What You'll Discover:
- Ancient Origins: How early civilizations from China to Rome first encountered and adapted to irregular warfare, establishing principles that remain relevant today
- Colonial Struggles: The development of systematic irregular warfare during European expansion, from Native American resistance to Irish rebellions
- Revolutionary Warfare: Mao's three-phase theory, the French Resistance, and how political movements transformed guerrilla tactics into instruments of social change
- Modern Adaptations: Al-Qaeda's global networks, urban warfare in megacities, and how cyber operations are revolutionizing irregular conflict
- Counter-Insurgency Evolution: From British colonial methods to American doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, examining what works-and what doesn't-in combating irregular forces
Key Features:
✓ Comprehensive analysis of successful and failed irregular campaigns across all major historical periods ✓ Detailed examination of tactical innovations and technological adaptations ✓ Case studies spanning six continents and dozens of conflicts ✓ Assessment of emerging threats from climate change, urbanization, and new technologies ✓ Extensive appendices including timeline of major conflicts, comparative tactical analysis, and comprehensive bibliography
This book synthesizes lessons from history's most significant irregular conflicts, from Arminius's destruction of Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest to contemporary hybrid warfare in Ukraine. It demonstrates how geography, technology, and political legitimacy interact to determine outcomes, while revealing enduring principles that transcend specific historical contexts.
Essential reading for:
- Military professionals and defense analysts
- Students of military history and strategic studies
- Policy makers dealing with contemporary security challenges
- Anyone seeking to understand how asymmetric conflicts shape our world
Whether examining Francis Marion's operations in the American Revolution, T.E. Lawrence's coordination of the Arab Revolt, or modern drone warfare against terrorist networks, this work provides the historical context and analytical framework necessary for understanding irregular warfare's past, present, and future evolution.
"The most comprehensive examination of irregular warfare ever written, combining rigorous historical scholarship with practical insights for contemporary challenges."
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