Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Volume 25, issue 5-6, 2014

Notes on Contributors pp. 877-878

The Editors

Counterinsurgency or irregular warfare? Historiography and the study of ‘small wars’ pp. 879-899

Sibylle Scheipers

Militias as sociopolitical movements: Lessons from Iraq's armed Shia groups pp. 900-923

Ches Thurber

Afghanistan after the Soviets: From jihad to tribalism pp. 924-956

Brian Glyn Williams

Urban violence and the militarisation of security: Brazilian ‘peacekeeping’ in Rio de Janeiro and Port-au-Prince pp. 957-975

Kristian Hoelscher and Per M. Norheim-Martinsen

Ireland's Ho Chi Minh trail? The Republic of Ireland's role in the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign, 1970–1976 pp. 976-991

Gearóid Ó Faoleán

The Nepalese Army: From counterinsurgency to peacekeeping? pp. 992-1016

Arturo C. Sotomayor

Ungoverned space? Examining the FARC's interactions with local populations in Northern Ecuador pp. 1017-1038

Maria Kingsley

John Brown as guerrilla terrorist pp. 1039-1054

Brenda J. Lutz and James M. Lutz

‘Outside their expertise’: The implications of Field Manual 3-24 for the professional military education of non-commissioned officers pp. 1055-1062

James Hasík

The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created pp. 1063-1065

Richard J. Kilroy

Global Security Upheaval: Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions pp. 1065-1067

Robert J. Bunker

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 25, issue 4, 2014

Notes on Contributors pp. 717-719

The Editors

Bibliography pp. 720-737

The Editors

‘The Origins of Small Wars from Special Operations to Ideological Insurgencies’: A National Army Museum response pp. 738-740

Alastair Massie

Introduction: Exploring the jungle of terminology pp. 741-753

Beatrice Heuser

The sixteenth-century antecedents of special operations ‘small war’ pp. 754-766

Benjamin Deruelle

The essence of war: French armies and small war in the Low Countries (1672–1697) pp. 767-783

Bertrand Fonck and George Satterfield

Initiating insurgencies abroad: French plans to ‘chouannise’ Britain and Ireland, 1793–1798 pp. 784-799

Sylvie Kleinman

The insurgency of the Vendée pp. 800-813

Alan Forrest

Guerrillas and bandits in the Serranía de Ronda, 1810–1812 pp. 814-827

Charles Esdaile

The German wars of liberation 1807–1815: The restrained insurgency pp. 828-842

Martin Rink

Poachers turned gamekeepers: A study of the guerrilla phenomenon in Spain, 1808–1840 pp. 843-857

Mark Lawrence

Lessons learnt? Cultural transfer and revolutionary wars, 1775–1831 pp. 858-876

Beatrice Heuser

Volume 25, issue 3, 2014

Influence without power? Reframing British concepts of military intervention after 10 years of counterinsurgency pp. 495-500

Matthew Ford

Enmeshed in insurgency: Britain's protracted retreats from Iraq and Afghanistan pp. 501-521

Huw Bennett

Syria and the perils of proxy warfare pp. 522-538

Geraint Alun Hughes

Conflicting worldviews, mutual incomprehension: The production of intelligence across Whitehall and the management of subversion during decolonisation, 1944–1966 pp. 539-559

Gregor Davey

Helpless or Deliberate Bystander: American Policy towards South Vietnam's Military Coups, 1954–1975 pp. 560-583

Jeffrey H. Michaels

Building Stability Overseas: Three case studies in British defence diplomacy – Uganda, Rhodesia–Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone pp. 584-606

Matthew Ford

Civil–military relations in francophone Africa and the consequences of a mistaken analysis pp. 607-627

Olaf Bachmann

Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar: An appraisal pp. 628-646

Clive Jones

Upstream engagement and downstream entanglements: The assumptions, opportunities, and threats of partnering pp. 647-668

Robert Johnson

Deterrence and overseas stability pp. 669-684

John Stone

Goodbye to all that: On small wars and big choices pp. 685-695

Patrick Porter

Expendable soldiers pp. 696-716

Douglas Porch

Volume 25, issue 2, 2014

Notes on Contributors pp. 255-256

The Editors

The evolution of Hezbollah's strategy and military performance, 1982–2006 pp. 257-283

Iver Gabrielsen

The Taliban's ‘military courts’ pp. 284-296

Antonio Giustozzi

‘Blackmailing the army’ – ‘Strategic Military Refusal’ as policy and doctrine enforcement: the formation of a new security agent pp. 297-328

Udi Lebel

Born violent: Armed political parties and non-state governance in Lebanon's civil war pp. 329-353

Anne Marie Baylouny

Colombia: Changing strategy amidst the struggle pp. 354-371

Carlos Ospina and Thomas A. Marks

Violence and the state: Lessons from Colombia pp. 372-403

Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres

Elements of ‘armed non-state actors’ power: The case of al-Qaeda in Yemen pp. 404-427

Marina Eleftheriadou

‘Faced with death, even a mouse bites’: Social and religious motivations behind terrorism in Chechnya pp. 428-456

Matthew Janeczko

Analyzing the Cambodian insurgency as a social field pp. 457-478

Daniel Bultmann

A best practice for assessment in counterinsurgency pp. 479-486

Jonathan Schroden

Recent titles dealing with Indian and Nepali Maoists pp. 487-491

Thomas A. Marks

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005–2012 pp. 492-494

Benjamin Fisher

Volume 25, issue 1, 2014

Notes on Contributors pp. 1-2

The Editors

Editorial statement pp. 3-4

Paul B Rich

A historical overview of US counter-insurgency pp. 5-40

Paul B Rich

‘Full spectrum dominance’: Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy, 2001–2008 pp. 41-68

Maria Ryan

Counterinsurgency American style: Considering David Petraeus and twenty-first century irregular war pp. 69-90

James A. Russell

Conceptual failure, the Taliban's parallel hierarchies, and America's strategic defeat in Afghanistan pp. 91-121

Shivan Mahendrarajah

Naw Bahar District 2010–11: A case study of counterinsurgency Conducted by Naval Special Warfare in Afghanistan pp. 122-136

Thomas Briggs

The prospects of combined action: Lessons from Vietnam pp. 137-160

Yoav Gortzak

Critics gone wild: Counterinsurgency as the root of all evil pp. 161-179

David H. Ucko

Reply to David Ucko pp. 180-185

Douglas Porch

From Patton to Petraeus: American Generalship and the Art of War Since 1941 pp. 186-204

Michael Evans

Drones, spies, terrorists, and second-class citizenship in Pakistan pp. 205-235

C. Christine Fair

Out of the Mountains: the Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla pp. 236-241

Alice Hills

Keep the change: Counterinsurgency, Iraq, and historical understanding pp. 242-253

Celeste Ward Gventer