Small Wars and Insurgencies

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Volume 32, issue 8, 2021

Mass balance, accumulation dynamics and high-altitude warfare: the Siachen Glacier as a battlefield pp. 1193-1220

Kristin Smith

Desertification, migration, and herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria: rethinking the ungoverned spaces thesis pp. 1221-1251

Nsemba Edward Lenshie, Kelechi Okengwu, Confidence N. Ogbonna and Christian Ezeibe

Counterinsurgency in the Age of Enlightenment: military ethnography of the ‘Highland Problem’ pp. 1252-1275

Stanislav Malkin

The power of cultural weapons in counterinsurgency: South Korea’s Jeong culture and its effectiveness in Vietnam pp. 1276-1301

Kil Joo Ban

Implausible sovereigns and their organizational logic: violent non-state actors’ response to COVID-19 pp. 1302-1331

Ori Swed

Explaining rebel-state collaboration in insurgency: keep your friends close but your enemies closer pp. 1332-1361

Jelte Johannes Schievels and Thomas Colley

Onset of new business? Private military and security companies and conflict onset in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2011 pp. 1362-1393

Ulrich Petersohn

Discretion and military frontline workers: investigating civil-military relations policies in Afghanistan pp. 1394-1417

Lene Ekhaugen

Did India’s demonetization policy curb stone-pelting in Indian-administered Kashmir pp. 1418-1453

C. Christine Fair, Digvijay Ghotane and Parina Patel

Volume 32, issue 7, 2021

Securing the keystone: the suppression of anti-communist insurgents in Southern China, 1949–1952 pp. 1029-1055

Zi Yang

Understanding Somalia’s multidimensional protracted war: an updated structural-processual analysis pp. 1056-1091

Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa and Sylvester Tabe Arrey

A case of violent corruption: JNIM’s insurgency in Mali (2017–2019) pp. 1092-1116

Luciano Pollichieni

A forgotten decade? Politicking and war for the ANC/FAZ 1967-1977 pp. 1117-1137

Colin D. Robinson

Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives pp. 1138-1162

Hannah West

Small wars and the construction of the Venetian defence system from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries pp. 1163-1187

Tea Perinčić

Everything you have told me is true: the many faces of Al Shabaab pp. 1188-1191

Paul B. Rich

Volume 32, issue 6, 2021

Introduction: Maritime Southeast Asia’s encounter with Westphalianism pp. 855-866

Richard Chauvel and Derek McDougall

Indonesia’s war against East Timor: how it ended pp. 867-886

Clinton Fernandes

The logics of insurgency in the Bangsamoro pp. 887-912

Georgi Engelbrecht

West Papua: Indonesia’s last regional conflict pp. 913-944

Richard Chauvel

Islam and the BRN’s armed separatist movement in Southern Thailand pp. 945-976

Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat

Concerns for the neighbours (and some others): international involvement in the conflicts in the Southern Philippines and West Papua pp. 977-1011

Derek McDougall

Child soldiers research: the next necessary steps pp. 1012-1022

M.J. Fox

Fascist warfare, 1922-1945: aggression, occupation, annihilation pp. 1023-1025

Hew Strachan

Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups pp. 1025-1028

Natasja Rupesinghe

Volume 32, issue 4-5, 2021

Ireland, 2021: a century of insurgency, terrorism and security challenges pp. 587-597

Aaron Edwards and Cillian McGrattan

‘Lessons learned’ during the Interbellum: ‘Irish war’ and British counterinsurgency pp. 598-618

Stanislav Malkin

Shallow graves; documenting & assessing IRA disappearances during the Irish revolution 1919–1923 pp. 619-641

Andy Bielenberg and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

Brothers in arms? How the IRA and EOKA insurgencies transcended the local and became transnational pp. 642-664

Aaron Edwards and Maria Hadjiathanasiou

Sectarianism and the Provisional Irish Republican Army pp. 665-686

Martin J. McCleery

Inter- and intra-agency intelligence liaison during ‘the troubles’ pp. 687-713

Samantha Newbery

The unfinished revolution of ‘dissident’ Irish republicans: divergent views in a fragmented base pp. 714-746

Marisa McGlinchey

From warrior regimes to illicit sovereigns: Ulster loyalist paramilitaries and the security implications for Brexit pp. 747-771

Seán Brennan

Explaining violent dissident Republican breakaway through deviant cohesion pp. 772-788

Patrick Finnegan

‘Attempting to deal with the past’: historical inquiries, legacy prosecutions, and Operation Banner pp. 789-811

Andrew Sanders

Bringing politics back in: interpretations of the peace process and the security challenge in Northern Ireland pp. 812-836

Paul Dixon

Afterword pp. 837-844

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

Remaking the Modern World 1900-2015: global connections and comparisons pp. 845-850

Paul B. Rich

Syrian Requiem: the civil war and its aftermath pp. 851-854

Fouad Mami

Volume 32, issue 3, 2021

Whose hybrid warfare? How ‘the hybrid warfare’ concept shapes Russian discourse, military, and political practice pp. 415-440

Maxim A. Suchkov

Geographies of hybrid war: rebellion and foreign intervention in Ukraine pp. 441-468

Valery Dzutsati

Reconstructing the theater of terror pp. 469-489

Matthew M. Sweeney, Arie Perliger and Ami Pedahzur

Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias pp. 490-508

Antonio De Lauri and Astri Suhrke

Settle and conquer: the ultimate counterinsurgency success pp. 509-534

Matthew J. Flynn

Academic questions on jihadist sources, analysis, and networks: a rejoinder to will Reno on Unmasking Boko Haram pp. 535-549

Jacob Zenn

Review of the special issue ‘robotics autonomous systems and warfare,’ Small Wars and Insurgencies 31, 4 June 2020 pp. 550-570

Paul Lushenko

The Russian understanding of war: blurring the lines between war and peace pp. 571-573

Craig Whiteside

Stalin’s Guerillas in World War II pp. 574-578

Alexander Gogun

Barbed-wire imperialism: Britain’s empire of camps, 1876-1903 pp. 578-580

Paul B. Rich

The US volunteers in the Southern Philippines: counterinsurgency, pacification, and collaboration, 1899-1901 pp. 580-585

Oliver Charbonneau

Volume 32, issue 2, 2021

Gray zone in red: China revisits the past pp. 181-204

Thomas A. Marks and David H. Ucko

Playing chess with the Dragon: Chinese-U.S. competition in the era of irregular warfare pp. 205-228

Cary Mittelmark

Springing the ‘Tacitus Trap’: countering Chinese state-sponsored disinformation pp. 229-265

Jesse S. Curtis

Irregular warfare in translation: past U.S. and Chinese excursions through the looking class pp. 266-294

Edward C. O’Dowd

The concept of ‘hybrid warfare’ undermines NATO’s strategic thinking: insights from interviews with NATO officials pp. 295-319

Murat Caliskan and Michel Liégeois

Lost in transition: the myth of Mao and the origins of COIN pp. 320-343

Emanuele Castelli, Simone Dossi and Lorenzo Zambernardi

‘Ground Hog Da Din’ for the Sikh insurgency? pp. 344-373

C. Christine Fair, Kerry Ashkenaze and Scott Batchelder

Bringing the war home: the strategic logic of ‘North Caucasian terrorism’ in Russia pp. 374-408

Vassily A. Klimentov

A British profession of arms: the politics of command in the late Victorian army pp. 409-412

Thomas-Durell Young

Directorate S: the CIA and America’s secrete wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan pp. 412-414

S. Yaqub Ibrahimi

Volume 32, issue 1, 2021

New societies, new soldiers? A soldier typology pp. 1-25

Iselin Silja Kaspersen

Civilians’ survival strategies during the Taliban’s insurgency (2007-9), Pakistan: a look at the consequences pp. 26-52

Sanaullah

Counterinsurgency in South Africa: the Afrikaner Rebellion, 1914–1915 pp. 53-79

Antonio Garcia and Evert Kleynhans

‘The elite troops of trafficking’. An assessment of the phenomenon of military-trained gang members in Rio de Janeiro pp. 80-102

Andrea Varsori

The counter-insurgent paradox. How the FARC-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia pp. 103-126

José Antonio Gutiérrez

The M-19’s ideological Sancocho: the reconciliation of socialism and Colombian nationalism pp. 127-151

Francis O’Connor and Jakob Meer

The Venezuelan castro-communist counterinsurgency (1960-1968) and the fight for emergent democratic governments pp. 152-162

Daniel Levinson Harris

Conflict in the South African transition: an analysis shaped by subaltern studies pp. 163-172

Paul B Rich

Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global Jihad in Nigeria pp. 173-176

Will Reno

Cities at war global insecurity and urban resistance pp. 177-180

Namrata Goswami