Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2026

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Volume 37, issue 5, 2026

Irregular Warfare (IW) and the Gray Zone: Trump II in context pp. 1005-1037

Thomas A. Marks

US empire and Gray Zone Conflict in the Middle East: from the Cold War to Trump I and II pp. 1038-1067

Paul B. Rich

From kingpins to terrorists: Trump II, cartels as FTOs, and the weaponization of covert action pp. 1068-1100

Magda Long

Irregular Warfare in the Western Hemisphere under Trump II pp. 1101-1129

Craig A. Deare

The war brought home: domestic irregular warfare and the architecture of disappearance pp. 1130-1167

John D. Marks

All roads lead to Taiwan: China’s Maritime Gray Zone Strategy pp. 1168-1188

Joey Wang

Ukraine War in context: patterns of Russian cyber-warfare aggression, 2022–2024 pp. 1189-1230

Rebecca E. Rempe

Confronting US economic coercion – political warfare as policy response pp. 1231-1259

Dennis M. Rempe

Afterword: reflections on the Iran War pp. 1260-1283

Paul B Rich and Thomas A Marks

When rebels win: ideology, statebuilding and power after civil wars pp. 1284-1286

Bilal Ahmad Tantray

Reproducing revolution: women’s labor and the war in Kachinland pp. 1287-1290

Amrita Saikia

After liberation: women and the politics of expectations in rebel-to-party transitions pp. 1291-1295

Anne Marie Baylouny

Volume 37, issue 4, 2026

Kaliningrad: the strategic challenge for NATO’s eastern flank and German–Polish perspectives pp. 787-812

Nurlan Aliyev, Gustav C. Gressel and Zdzisław Śliwa

Irregular warfare and strategic adaptation in modern Japan: institutions, intelligence, and total war pp. 813-836

Andrea Molle

Indigenization: a new framework for analyzing counterinsurgency through the first Indochina war (1946–1954) pp. 837-863

Mathéo Boccoz

Coercion, proxy wars, and fragmented sovereignty: the crisis of democratic legitimacy in Manipur pp. 864-887

Homen Thangjam and Chinglen Laishram

The water and the fish: counterinsurgency models for climate-induced violence pp. 888-916

Shachar Heller and Elai Rettig

Visible politics and invisible tactics: the use of uniforms in asymmetric conflicts pp. 917-937

Yaron Jean

Insecurity in Balē, Ethiopia: the road to the 1960s mass Rebellion and state failure pp. 938-963

Tsegaye Moreda Fida, Tesemma Taa and Awegichew Amare

The dawn of regional hegemony in Ethiopia: the metamorphosis of Yäğğu Dynsaty (1766–1786 A.D) pp. 964-985

Fitsum Yussuf Abegaz

Gendered violence, governance, and survival in accounts of Yezidi women under ISIS: a review essay pp. 986-994

Gülfer Ulaş

Unconventional warfare: Small Wars and Insurgencies in the India-Myanmar Borderland (1914-1945) pp. 995-997

Lalbiakthang Hrangkhol

Rethinking remote warfare: AI, drones, and future war pp. 997-1000

Syyed Sheraz Ali Sherazi

Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond the Ukraine War pp. 1000-1004

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 37, issue 3, 2026

Rebellion, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Southern Africa, 1945–1994 pp. 487-495

Evert Kleynhans and Antonio Garcia

Review article: South African military involvement in Rhodesia, c.1965-80 pp. 496-517

Hugh Pattenden

‘A clash of cultures’: varying perspectives on the Rhodesian incorporation into the South African special forces pp. 518-542

Louis Bester

A lion eating its cubs? Assassinations, mutinies, renegades and the failure of ZIPRA’s Turning Point Strategy, 1977–1980 pp. 543-573

Takawira Chatambudza

Development of Portuguese counterinsurgency, 1961–1974 pp. 574-611

John P. Cann

The Mpondo uprising of 1960–61: the genesis of modern rural insurgency and airborne counter-insurgency operations in southern Africa pp. 612-633

McGill Alexander

From cooperation to amalgamation: the integration of the Selous Scouts into the South African Special Forces pp. 634-659

Louis Bester

Narrating peace: memoir, UNTAG, and the memory of Namibian independence pp. 660-686

Antonio Garcia and Anne Flaspöler

The foundations of Exercise ALCORA: South African military support to the Portuguese Armed Forces in Angola, 1966–1970 pp. 687-725

Evert Kleynhans

The militarization of the South African Border War: South African Police & South African Defence Force operations in northern South West Africa (Namibia), 1965–1967 pp. 726-755

Jean-Pierre Scherman

Frontline state security: rebel movements and cover states in Southern Africa, 1970–1990 pp. 756-779

Tycho van der Hoog and John Burton Kegel

Nigeria security: the tragedy of latent great powers pp. 780-783

Onyedikachi Madueke

Rebels in the field: cadres and the development of insurgent military power pp. 783-786

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 37, issue 2, 2026

Killing like a state: explaining the edge cases of rebel perpetration of wartime genocidal violence pp. 247-275

Cheng Xu

Strategic narratives as power multipliers in asymmetric conflicts: lessons learned from Volodymyr Zelensky pp. 276-308

Nikolaos Lysigakis

Counter-terrorism via proxies? How the U.S. defeated ISIS in Syria pp. 309-330

Spyridon Plakoudas and Wojciech Michnik

Pledges of allegiance: deciphering the function and evolution of ‘bay’ah’ within al-Qaida pp. 331-362

Ahmed Sahal K P

From caliphate to confederalism: how ISIS and the PYD used gender to consolidate control in the Syrian Civil War pp. 363-397

Christina Schmid

Legitimacy, power, and the politics of security in localized counterinsurgency: lessons from India, Iraq, and beyond pp. 398-424

Jithin Raveendran

Türkiye’s strategic ambiguity in the Russia-Ukraine war pp. 425-445

Gulfer Ulas

‘I do solemnly promise … ’ the IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice pp. 446-467

Michael Flavin

Insurgency in India’s Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance pp. 468-472

Leivon Albert Lamkang and Leivon Victor Lamkang

The new total war: from child abduction to cyber attacks and drones to disinformation: Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and the West pp. 473-476

Lawrence E. Cline

Securitizing the Sahel: analysing external interventions and their consequences pp. 477-481

Lawrence E. Cline

Info Ops: from World War I to the Twitter era pp. 481-485

Lawrence E. Cline

Volume 37, issue 1, 2026

Between ‘Qoretta’ and trenches: the 2020–2022 Tigray war, the Tigrayan Defense Forces, and 21st century mobile warfare pp. 1-28

David L. Gebre-Medhin

Assessing Sandline International’s reputation as a private military company pp. 29-62

Joseph Temple and Samantha Newbery

Beyond the Predator paradigm: what the Iraq and Afghan wars did (and did not) tell us about emergent drone warfare pp. 63-82

Ash Rossiter

Between insurgency and terrorism: the escalating operational sophistication of the Balochistan Liberation Army, 2005–2025 pp. 83-108

Cynthia I. Ugwu

From tribal to the middle class: redefining leadership, strategy and ideological transformation in Balochistan insurgency pp. 109-134

Shiraz Shaikh

The Russian resort to hybrid warfare: from Peter the great to Gerasimov pp. 135-168

Riccardo Allegri

Armed opposition in wartime Russia: the Russian Volunteer Corps pp. 169-202

Pavlo Otamas and Jan Holzer

Between military and political expedience: ‘machinery of Rule’ in the British Empire during the Interbellum pp. 203-224

Stanislav Malkin

The Arab-Israeli conflict 1947-51, ethnic cleansing and efforts to forge a Palestinian “peace process.” pp. 225-233

Paul B. Rich

Non-state special operations: non-state special operations capabilities and effects pp. 234-236

Lawrence E. Cline

Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics: Implications for Civil-Military Relations pp. 237-241

Lawrence E. Cline

Beyond black hawk down: intervention, nation-building, and insurgency in somalia, 1992-1995 pp. 242-245

Mujeeb Kanth