Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Volume 34, issue 8, 2023

Introduction pp. 1383-1399

Paul B Rich

Environmental dimensions of conflict and paralyzed responses: the ongoing case of Ukraine and future implications for urban warfare pp. 1400-1428

Kristina Hook and Richard Marcantonio

Environment and armed conflict in Colombia: terrorist attacks against water resources and oil infrastructure in Norte de Santander (2010-2020) pp. 1429-1457

Jerónimo Ríos, Julio C. González and Mariano García de las Heras

Multinational Joint Task Force’s counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin and the consequences of Chadian exit for the Northeast, Nigeria pp. 1458-1485

Nsemba Edward Lenshie, Patience Kondu Jacob, Confidence Nwachinemere Ogbonna, Buhari Shehu Miapyen, Paul Onuh, Aminu Idris and Christian Ezeibe

Pastoralist, farmers and desertification induced conflict in North Central and Southern Nigeria pp. 1486-1500

Ismail Bello and Sophia Kazibwe

High-modernist intervention and the prolonged frontier conflict in Metekel, North-West Ethiopia: the case of the grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam pp. 1501-1531

Dagnachew Ayenew Yeshiwas, Gutema Imana Keno, Tsega Endale Etefa and Tompson Makahamadze

Chinese Private Security Companies and the limit of coercion pp. 1532-1557

Ricardo Pereira, Ana Luquett, Rui Forte and Mohammad Eslami

Volume 34, issue 7, 2023

Potemkin on the Dnieper: the Failure of Russian Airpower in the Ukraine war pp. 1205-1234

Sean M. Wiswesser

From gray zone to conventional warfare: the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Black Sea pp. 1235-1270

Borys Kormych and Tetyana Malyarenko

Friend and Foe: Russia–Turkey relations before and after the war in Ukraine pp. 1271-1294

Vicken Cheterian

Exploring factors and implications of violence against civilians: a case study of the Soviet-Afghan war pp. 1295-1321

Justin Magula

Sergei Loznitsa, ethereal documentarian: untangling the Russia-Ukraine war in the Kiev Trial, Donbass, and Maidan pp. 1322-1342

Bianca Berman

The challenges of military adaptation to the cyber domain: a case study of the Netherlands pp. 1343-1362

Max Smeets

Chinese war in Southeast Asia’s Frontier: contesting Kokang’s Chinese identity on Myanmar-China Border conflict pp. 1363-1381

Danny Widiatmo and Abellia Anggi Wardani

Volume 34, issue 6, 2023

Mapping premodern small war: The case of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) pp. 1043-1071

Peter H. Wilson, Katerina Tkacova and Thomas Pert

Insurgencies & organized crime: the essential elements of information pp. 1072-1094

Lawrence E. Cline

Narco drones: tracing the evolution of cartel aerial tactics in Mexico’s low-intensity conflicts pp. 1095-1129

Ghaleb Krame, Vlado Vivoda and Amanda Davies

Security in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel region after Idris Déby pp. 1130-1153

Chukwuma Rowland Okoli, Bernard U. Nwosu, Francis N. Okpaleke and Ezenwa E. Olumba

Rewriting the rules of land reform: counterinsurgency and the property rights gap in wartime Nicaragua pp. 1154-1179

Rachel A. Schwartz

Counterinsurgency as order-making: refining the concepts of insurgency and counterinsurgency in light of the Somali civil war pp. 1180-1203

Michael Weddegjerde Skjelderup and Mukhtar Ainashe

Volume 34, issue 5, 2023

Introduction pp. 883-895

Paul B Rich

Guerrillas in our midst: Reflections on the British experience of counter-insurgency in popular fiction pp. 896-918

Geraint Hughes

Interrogating the myth of the Irish republican hero: a syntactic analysis of hunger (2008) and the wind that shakes the barley (2006) pp. 919-941

Samuel Schiffer

Peace suspended by a sword: honor & justifications of violence in Breaker Morant pp. 942-961

J.B. Potter

The soldier as victim and aggressor: subverting the hero soldier in Apocalypse Now, Dien Bien Phu, and White Badge pp. 962-984

Bianca Berman

The utilization of special forces in peace missions: perspectives from South Africa pp. 985-1006

Louis Bester

A light footprint in Syria: operational art in operation inherent resolve pp. 1007-1039

Bo Arnold and John Nagl

The insurgent’s dilemma: A struggle to prevail pp. 1040-1042

Nelson Kasfir

Volume 34, issue 4, 2023

The Fall of Afghanistan: An American Tragedy pp. 747-758

Robert S. Snyder

Power projection of Middle East states in the Horn of Africa: linking security burdens with capabilities pp. 759-779

Federico Donelli and Brendon J. Cannon

Non-state actors and modern technology pp. 780-802

Andrea Beccaro

Shaping hearts and minds: claret operations in Borneo, 1965–1966 pp. 803-827

Christopher Tuck

The strategic logic of policing in British India pp. 828-852

Harrison Akins

‘Destructors’ in action, support for insurgents: case study of the Third Silesian Uprising pp. 853-881

Hubert Królikowski

Volume 34, issue 3, 2023

Counterinsurgency in China and India: an Introduction pp. 541-545

Peter Lorge

Roots of Afridi Insurgency in British India’s North-West Frontier: 1849-1897 pp. 546-570

Sameetah Agha

Small wars as ‘savage warfare’: rethinking colonial counterinsurgency operations in Northeast India and Northwest Burma (1826–1919) pp. 571-596

Pum Khan Pau

Sikh insurgency in pre-British India: origin, context and legacies pp. 597-626

Kaushik Roy

Heart-minds and harquebuses: the Bozhou rebellion in China (1587-1600) pp. 627-669

Barend Noordam

Blown like cotton in the wind: women’s experiences of the White Lotus War (1796-1804) pp. 670-692

James Bonk

The logics of atrocities: a local official and the small wars in Taiping China, 1851–1864 pp. 693-724

Weiting Guo

Personal allegiances in nineteenth-century China’s southern borderland insurgencies pp. 725-746

Linh D. Vu

Volume 34, issue 2, 2023

Correction pp. (i)-(i)

The Editors

Correction pp. (ii)-(ii)

The Editors

The evolution of resistance and counterinsurgency in the South African state, 1899-1948 pp. 317-327

Antonio Garcia and Evert Kleynhans

A Historical Overview of Boer Guerrilla and British Counterinsurgency Operations During the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 pp. 328-356

André Wessels

The 1914 South African industrial strike: the first internal deployment of the Union Defence Force pp. 357-381

René Geyer

The ovamboland expedition of 1917: the deposing of King Mandume pp. 382-421

Andries M. Fokkens

The Union Defence Force and the suppression of the Bondelswarts Rebellion, 1922 pp. 422-451

Evert Kleynhans and Antonio Garcia

Urban counterinsurgency: the Union Defence Force and the suppression of the 1922 Rand Revolt pp. 452-493

Evert Kleynhans and Anri Delport

Enemy within the gates: militarism, sabotage, subversion and counter-subversion in South Africa, 1939-1945 pp. 494-519

Fankie Monama

Insurgency, counter-insurgency, and the military and security dimensions of South African racial segregation pp. 520-540

Paul B Rich

Volume 34, issue 1, 2023

Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda pp. 1-23

Hanna Pfeifer and Regine Schwab

Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic pp. 24-51

Tim Glawion and Anne-Clémence Le Noan

Council in war: civilocracy, order and local organisation in daraya during the Syrian War pp. 52-80

Tiina Hyyppä

‘Blunt’ biopolitical rebel rule: on weapons and political geography at the edge of the state pp. 81-112

Francesco Buscemi

Rebel security governance in transition: the case of post-independence Timor-Leste pp. 113-137

Deniz Kocak

Pathways of post-conflict violence in Colombia pp. 138-164

Juan Albarracín, Juan Corredor-Garcia, Juan Pablo Milanese, Inge H. Valencia and Jonas Wolff

Dynamics of peace or legacy of rebel governance? Patterns of cooperation between FARC-ex-combatants and conflict-affected communities in Colombia pp. 165-194

Solveig Richter and Laura Camila Barrios Sabogal

Thorny identity? Non-state actors, service provision, identities, and Hamas in Gaza pp. 195-220

Abdalhadi Alijla

Behind enemy lines: State-insurgent cooperation on rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire and Sri Lanka pp. 221-246

Sebastian van Baalen and Niels Terpstra

The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon: local conflict, global competition, and transnational rebel governance pp. 247-278

Maria Ketzmerick

The shadow of ‘the boys:’ rebel governance without territorial control in Assam’s ULFA insurgency pp. 279-304

Alex Waterman

Identity, networks, and learning in the study of rebel governance pp. 305-315

Megan A. Stewart

Correction pp. 316-316

The Editors