Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 3, 2025

Striking the balance in arctic security: the role of special operations forces in a small state’s defense against armed attacks pp. 445-473

Jostein Mattingsdal, Tone Danielsen and Kjetil Mellingen

Organizational form and fatalities in Michoacán’s vigilante movement, 2012–2015 pp. 474-501

Dolores Trevizo and Michael J. Wolff

Rebel group branding and external intervention pp. 502-528

Amy Skoll

Shifts in Azerbaijani discourse: Heydar Aliyev’s rhetorical transformation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict negotiation process pp. 529-551

Naira Sahakyan and Anahit Kartashyan

Terrorist alliance formation: the case of Islamic State and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Balochistan (Pakistan) pp. 552-575

Khurram Shahzad Siddiqui

Another front, another story: relief and rehabilitation in post-second World War Northeast India, 1944–1955 pp. 576-610

Jangkhomang Guite

ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn pp. 611-613

Derhasat Narzary and Jenthoka Basumatary

Number 788: my experience in Swedish special operations—preparing for NATO and the War on Terror pp. 614-616

Paul Shemella

Rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine: from leaderless groups to proxy army pp. 616-620

Lawrence E. Cline

Counterinsurgency warfare and brutalisation: the second Russian-Chechen war pp. 620-624

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 36, issue 2, 2025

Institutions, power-sharing, and the cohesiveness of rebel coalitions in the Syrian civil war pp. 245-268

Edoardo Corradi and Giampiero Cama

Process tracing and non-state violent actors: ensuring methodological rigor in the study of non-state violent actors (without getting yourself killed) pp. 269-298

Julie Mazzei and Sweta Sen

When terrorists attempt politics: an evaluation of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s pursuit of political transformation pp. 299-326

Julian Droogan, Khuram Iqbal and Syed Adnan Bukhari

Advocating for rebellion – Rebel diplomacy and international advocacy in the Bougainville Crisis pp. 327-352

Christopher Brucker

Dispersing into the ether: a discourse on how the Ugandan government banished the LRA to the shadow realm pp. 353-377

Majak D’Agoôt

The myth of ‘hearts and minds’ in cold war Borneo 1962–74 pp. 378-401

David Phillips

Logistics of British counterinsurgency during the Indian Rebellion: 1857–1859 pp. 402-435

Kaushik Roy

Understanding insurgent resilience: organizational structures and the implications for counterinsurgency pp. 436-438

Lawrence E. Cline

From jihad to politics: how Syrian jihadis embraced politics pp. 439-443

Ahmed Sahal K. P

Volume 36, issue 1, 2025

Unpacking water conflicts in Africa: exploring key drivers pp. 1-28

Lucie Konecna

Maritime asymmetric warfare strategy for smaller states: lessons from Ukraine pp. 29-58

Md. Tanvir Habib and Shah Md Shamrir Al Af

Do mercenaries perform better than states? Evaluating the Wagner group’s impact on Central African Republic pp. 59-86

Ori Swed and Alessandro Arduino

Legitimacy in conflict contexts: shifting rebel engagement in Sierra Leone and the presence of private contractors pp. 87-119

Anne Lauder

Accumulation by/for terrorism: the political economy of terrorism financing in Nigeria pp. 120-159

Promise Frank Ejiofor

One conflict, different meanings: a comparative analysis of Armenian and Azerbaijani narratives of victory in Nagorno-Karabakh wars pp. 160-184

Erik Davtyan

Choking off democratic channels and the resort to violence: how the political genocide of Unión Patriótica (UP) candidates escalated and perpetuated Colombia’s armed conflict pp. 185-212

Jenaro Abraham, Kelsey Carlston and Stacy Bondanella Taninchev

Traces of Post-Soviet revolution poetic cinema in the films of Sergei Loznitsa pp. 213-235

Sibel Sebuktekin and Yasemin Kılınçarslan

Citizenship and genocide cards: IDs, statelessness and Rohingya resistance in Myanmar pp. 236-238

Ananda Kumar Biswas

Insurgency in India’s northeast: identity formation, postcolonial nation/state-building, and secessionist resistance pp. 238-240

Lawrence E. Cline

We had the Watches. They had the Time: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan pp. 241-243

Meherab Hossain and Md. Obaidullah

Volume 35, issue 8, 2024

‘Havoc the laws of regular warfare do not sanction:’ the resort to punitive violence by British forces in Victorian small wars pp. 1295-1334

Parker Hempel and M.L.R. Smith

The grand strategy of a non-Western small state: Sri Lanka and the LTTE during 2006-2009 pp. 1335-1359

Shlomi Yass

Black Sea, grain, and two humanitarian corridors: unblocking Ukrainian shipping amid the Russian invasion pp. 1360-1396

Borys Kormych, Tetyana Averochkina and Liudmyla Kormych

Jihadist sniper culture: propagandising the ‘caliphate’ through the crosshair pp. 1397-1416

Pieter Nanninga

The nature and extent of the Taliban’s involvement in the drug trade before and after the regime change (1994–2022): insights from experts pp. 1417-1445

Hamid Azizi

The killing fields of Punjab: representing the Sikh militancy in cinema pp. 1446-1466

C. Christine Fair and Harshiv Mahajan

Roles of gender in addressing structural inequality: assessment of Borana women’s endogenous institutional agents of gender amelioration in peace, conflict, and post-conflict settings pp. 1467-1499

Tesfaye Gudeta Gerba, Gutema Imana Keno, Mulu Berhanu Hundera and Fekadu Adugna Tufa

Contemporary wars and conflicts over land and water in africa pp. 1500-1502

Lawrence E. Cline

Friend or Foe: militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War pp. 1502-1506

Lawrence E. Cline

The Taliban courts in Afghanistan: waging war by law pp. 1506-1508

Ahmed Sahal K P

Volume 35, issue 7, 2024

The impact of precision strike technology on the warfare of non-state armed groups: case studies on Daesh and the Houthis pp. 1123-1150

Max Mutschler, Marius Bales and Esther Meininghaus

Conflict and democratization in Afghanistan pp. 1151-1178

S. Yaqub Ibrahimi

Fighting together: emotionality, fusion, and psychological kinship in the Syrian civil war pp. 1179-1211

Rahaf Aldoughli

Women, extremism and repression under Taliban 2.0 in Afghanistan: beyond the good pp. 1212-1232

Zahoor Ahmad Wani

Encounters with ISIS-affiliated women: radicalisation process, motivations, and their journey pp. 1233-1259

Gulfer Ulaş

Unheard voices: foreign journalists’ coverage of Vietnamese prisoners during the American War in Vietnam pp. 1260-1284

Marcel Berni

Russia in Africa: resurgent great power or bellicose pretender? pp. 1285-1289

Paul B. Rich

Subversion: from covert operations to cyber conflict pp. 1289-1293

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 35, issue 6, 2024

Repress, coopt, persuade? Russia’s counterinsurgency warfare from Kabul to Kyiv pp. 949-983

Mason W. Krusch

The Israel-Hamas conflict: ‘You might not be interested in attrition, but attrition is interested in you’ pp. 984-996

Amos C. Fox

Mortal ‘mistakes’, fatal consequences: understanding Nigeria’s mis-targeted counter-insurgency airstrike fatalities pp. 997-1023

Al Chukwuma Okoli, Azeez O. Olaniyan and Rasheed T. Ayegbusi

Elite Coalitions and Rebel Control in Northern Côte d’Ivoire pp. 1024-1049

Jeremy S. Speight

Selling security to Africa: private military and security companies (PMSCs) and the fate of African intrastate security pp. 1050-1078

Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey and Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Conditions for enduring peace: power-sharing and amnesty provisions pp. 1079-1104

Jaeseok Cho

A Slow Reckoning: the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam pp. 1105-1109

Lawrence E. Cline

An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics pp. 1110-1115

Paul B. Rich

The troubled triangle: US–Pakistan relations under the Taliban’s shadow pp. 1115-1118

Muhammad Asad Latif

Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the reinvention of colonialism, 1945–1971 pp. 1118-1121

Mujeeb Kanth

Volume 35, issue 5, 2024

Azerbaijan’s power plays: analyzing Baku’s policy towards Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh after 2020 pp. 747-776

Mushegh Ghahriyan, Veronika Torosyan and Anush Harutyunyan

The application of ‘Small Wars’ theory and experience by the British Army in Macedonia during the First World War pp. 777-806

Jake Gasson

South America: small wars, insurgencies & aerial acquisition programs pp. 807-837

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Fear as a product, continuum as a solution: the role of private companies in the transnational diffusion of zero tolerance policing to Brazil pp. 838-864

Alcides Eduardo Dos Reis Peron and Tomaz Oliveira Paoliello

Uncovering the sources of revolutionary violence: the case of Colombia’s National Front (1958-1964) pp. 865-895

Oliver Dodd

War within a war: Labour Corps and local response in Chin Hills during the First World War pp. 896-918

Pum Khan Pau

Armed opposition to the Stroessner regime in Paraguay: a review article pp. 919-939

Andrew Nickson

Review essay: proxy warfare and mercenaries pp. 940-948

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 35, issue 4, 2024

Hunting the watchmen the Ulster Defence Regiment and IRA strategy pp. 545-572

Daniel Chesse

Prima Donnas in Kevlar zones. Challenges to the Unconventional Warfare efforts of the U.S. Special Forces during Operation Enduring Freedom pp. 573-595

Anna M. Gielas

State survival vs leaders’ survival: how ethnic conflicts affect a state’s international alignment behavior pp. 596-621

Azar Babayev and Kavus Abushov

From alliance to ‘soft conquest’: the anatomy of the Turkish-Azerbaijani military alliance before and after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war pp. 622-655

Levon Hovsepyan and Artyom A. Tonoyan

From rebel leaders to post-war intermediaries: evidence from Southern Syria pp. 656-677

Abdullah Al-Jabassini

Local circumstances matter: the story of two peasant resistances in northwestern Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991 pp. 678-709

Dejenie Fikremaryam

Mughal amphibious counterinsurgency in the Bay of Bengal’s hinterland: 1572-1612 pp. 710-735

Kaushik Roy

Making the world safe for empire? pp. 736-745

Paul B Rich

Volume 35, issue 3, 2024

Urban warfare in the middle East: the battle of Mosul and the operations in Syria pp. 377-398

Andrea Beccaro

Autonomous cooperation: types of alliances between communities and combatants in civil wars pp. 399-429

Daniel Gómez-Uribe

Was Gerry Adams a transformational leader? pp. 430-452

Michael Flavin

‘Only a tree stands still to be cut down’: discoursing legitimation in narratives of the Nigeria-Biafra war and the IPOB movement (1967 to present) pp. 453-477

Adeiza Isiaka

Parmanu: the story of Pokhran (2018)- the saffronization of India’s quest for a nuclear weapon pp. 478-506

C. Christine Fair

Bollywood, Maratha imperialism and Hindu nationalism pp. 507-535

Kaushik Roy

Westphalia from below: humanitarian intervention and the myth of 1648 pp. 536-541

Paul B Rich

Mass atrocities and the police: A new history of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 541-543

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 35, issue 2, 2024

Conflict contagion via weapons proliferation out of collapsed states pp. 191-227

Kerry Chávez and Ori Swed

The bandits’ world: recruitment strategies, command structure and motivations for mass casualty attacks in northwest Nigeria pp. 228-255

Oluwole Ojewale

Towards “modern” counterinsurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learnt from Nigeria and Mozambique pp. 256-283

Jakub Zbytovsky and Jan Prouza

The conceptual and doctrinal evolution on irregular warfare in Türkiye: 1919-1952 pp. 284-311

Arman Sert and Cenker Korhan Demir

Insurgent movements and paths to negotiation: a case study of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) in India’s northeast pp. 312-337

Jimmy Sebastian Daimary and Pahi Saikia

The Catalan separatist insurrection armament of 1926 in the shadow of the Irish armed decade pp. 338-361

Joan Esculies

The Iranian revolutionary guard corps: defining Iran’s military doctrine pp. 362-364

Lawrence E. Cline

Atrocity labelling: from crimes against humanity to genocide studies pp. 364-368

Paul B. Rich

The counterinsurgent imagination: a new intellectual history pp. 368-371

Mujeeb Kanth

The Greek revolution: 1821 and the making of modern Europe pp. 371-375

Marina Eleftheriadou

Volume 35, issue 1, 2024

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

When Militias capture the state: evidence from Lebanon, Iraq, and Sudan pp. 1-26

Federico Manfredi Firmian

Conflict in early medieval Ireland, Adomnán of Iona and the law of the Innocents (697 AD): an early Law of war pp. 27-50

James W. Houlihan

Unholy alignment and boomerang civil conflicts: Examining how conflicts beget conflicts through external states support for rebels pp. 51-79

Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey

Rwanda’s War in Mozambique: Road-Testing a Kigali Principles approach to counterinsurgency? pp. 80-117

Ralph Shield

Negotiating ‘Hearts and Minds’: conflict, infrastructure, and community support in Colombia pp. 118-146

Clara Voyvodic

A guide for measuring resiliency and resistance pp. 147-172

Robert S. Burrell and John Collison

Uncivil war: the British army and the troubles, 1966-1975 pp. 173-176

Geraint Hughes

Memory Makers: The politics of the past in Putin’s Russia, by Jade McGlynn and Russia against modernity, by Alexander Etkind pp. 177-181

Paul B. Rich

Book review - proxy war in Yemen pp. 181-183

Melvyn Fookes

Zone of rebellion: Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state pp. 184-186

Berkan Özgür

Botha, Smuts and the great war pp. 186-190

Paul B Rich