Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

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Volume 31, issue 7-8, 2020

Notice of duplicate publication: Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman pp. (I)-(I)

The Editors

Notice of duplicate publication: What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection pp. (II)-(II)

The Editors

Notice of duplicate publication: An analysis of the Jewish-Roman War (66–73 AD) using contemporary insurgency theory pp. (III)-(III)

The Editors

Negotiating statehood through ceasefires: Syria’s de-escalation zones pp. 1395-1414

Marika Sosnowski

Private military & security companies, conflict complexity, and peace duration: an empirical analysis pp. 1415-1440

Elizabeth Radziszewski and Seden Akcinaroglu

Maoism: a global history pp. 1441-1447

Thomas A. Marks

Insurgency and counterinsurgency: a global history pp. 1448-1452

Paul B. Rich

Guerrilla Nightmare: Luftwaffe Stukas at War Against Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 pp. 1453-1455

Timothy Heck

Volume 31, issue 6, 2020

Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan pp. 1143-1173

Niels Terpstra

Jihadi governance and traditional authority structures: al-Shabaab and Clan Elders in Southern Somalia, 2008-2012 pp. 1174-1195

Michael Weddegjerde Skjelderup

The language of terror: exploring speech acts in official English-language ISIS videos, 2014-2017 pp. 1196-1241

Yuanbo Qi

Chronicling the Boko Haram Decade in Nigeria (2010-2020): distinguishing factions through videographic analysis pp. 1242-1294

Jacob Zenn

Environmental degradation, livelihood, and the stability of Chad Basin Region pp. 1295-1322

Saheed Babajide Owonikoko and Jude A. Momodu

The conceptual puzzle of violent non-state actors in Latin America: a critique of the convergence hypothesis pp. 1323-1348

Jochen Kleinschmidt and Oscar Palma

Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89) pp. 1349-1372

Weichong Ong

The Assam Rifles and India’s North-East frontier policy pp. 1373-1394

Harrison Akins

Volume 31, issue 5, 2020

Introduction pp. 931-955

Rose Mary Sheldon

Trajectories to rebellion: the Former Han dynasty pp. 956-987

Ralph D. Sawyer

The Ulcer of the Mughal Empire: Mughals and Marathas, 1680-1707 pp. 988-1009

Eric W. Osborne

Insurgency in Germany: the slaughter of Varus in the Teutoburger Wald pp. 1010-1043

Rose Mary Sheldon

Armed resistance to Roman rule in North Africa, from the time of Augustus to the vandal invasion pp. 1044-1057

David Cherry

An analysis of the Jewish-Roman War (66–73 AD) using contemporary insurgency theory pp. 1058-1079

Javier Jordán

‘I will lay waste your cities, and you will become a desolation’. Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Judaea pp. 1080-1107

Gwyn Davies

‘On the side of a righteous vengeance’ – Counterinsurgency operations in Roman Britain pp. 1108-1129

Jorit Wintjes

Biographies of two ‘big men’ in Zimbabwe: a review essay pp. 1130-1136

Norma Kriger

The Dragons and the Snakes: how the rest learned to fight the West pp. 1137-1138

Stephen Chan

Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana pp. 1139-1142

James O. Gump

Volume 31, issue 4, 2020

The impact of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) across the conflict spectrum pp. 691-700

Ash Rossiter

Reluctant innovators? Inter-organizational conflict and the U.S.A.’s route to becoming a drone power pp. 701-729

Marc R. DeVore

Armed, unmanned, and in high demand: the drivers behind combat drones proliferation in the Middle East pp. 730-750

Francesco F. Milan and Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan’s Pashtun ‘tribal’ region: beginning of the end under President Trump? pp. 751-772

Farooq Yousaf

What’s in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia’s Federal Government pp. 773-800

Brendon J. Cannon

What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection pp. 801-821

Andree-Anne Melancon

Friend or frenemy? The role of trust in human-machine teaming and lethal autonomous weapons systems pp. 822-850

Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas

Bots on the ground: an impending UGV revolution in military affairs? pp. 851-873

Ash Rossiter

Artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous systems along the belt and road: towards private security companies with Chinese characteristics? pp. 874-897

Peter Layton

The impact of Artificial Intelligence on hybrid warfare pp. 898-917

Guilong Yan

Tribes and politics in Yemen: a history of the Houthi Conflict pp. 918-929

Maria-Louise Clausen

Blood and Concrete: 21st century conflict in urban centers and megacities pp. 920-923

Alice Hills

To build as well as destroy: American nation building in Vietnam pp. 923-926

Christian Tripodi

Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74: between pragmatism and human rights pp. 926-929

Marina Eleftheriadou

Volume 31, issue 3, 2020

Rebel fragmentation in Syria’s civil war pp. 445-474

Olivier Walther and Patrick Steen Pedersen

War in Syria: the translocal dimension of fighter mobilization pp. 475-510

Esther Meininghaus and Carina Schlüsing

Liberated, not free: Yazidi women after Islamic State captivity pp. 511-539

Gina Vale

Towards the “olive trees of Rome”: exploitation of propaganda devices in the Islamic State’s flagship magazine “Rumiyah” pp. 540-568

Miron Lakomy

Israeli targeted killing operations before and during the Second Intifada: a contextualized comparison pp. 569-593

Oldrich Bures and Andrew J. Hawkins

The bombing of The King David Hotel, July 1946 pp. 594-611

Bruce Hoffman

Improving US army civil affairs assessment through social power analysis pp. 612-638

Lucy A. Whalley and Judith M. Vendrzyk

Political bargaining chips: republican internees in Northern Ireland 1972-1975 pp. 639-660

Tony Craig and Martin McCleery

Researching armed conflict, Boko Haram and other violent non-state actors: problems with web sources pp. 661-669

M. J. Fox

Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman pp. 670-679

Mitja Sardoc

Radical Islamist ideology, Jihadist recruitment and the contradictions of western counter-terrorism pp. 680-689

Paul B. Rich

Volume 31, issue 2, 2020

Considering anthropology and small wars pp. 211-218

Montgomery McFate

Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experiment pp. 219-240

Craig Whiteside and Anas Elallame

Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units pp. 241-266

Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom

Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966 pp. 267-285

Jason S. Ridler

Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary war pp. 286-312

Paul B. Rich

Archaeology and small wars pp. 313-339

Christopher Jasparro

Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan pp. 340-358

Paula Holmes-Eber

The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project pp. 359-380

Mohamed Haji Ingiriis

Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgency pp. 381-401

Heather S. Gregg

Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to Iraq pp. 402-419

Kjetil Enstad

‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant pp. 420-444

David B. Edwards

Volume 31, issue 1, 2020

The battle of Aleppo: external patrons and the victimization of civilians in civil war pp. 1-33

Keith A. Grant and Bernd Kaussler

Fight after flight? An exploration of the radicalization potential among refugees in Greece pp. 34-60

Marina Eleftheriadou

Taking to the streets: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the urbanization of insurgency pp. 61-86

Rebecca Lucas

War on the Hoof: regional security in Africa and livestock conflicts pp. 87-105

Lawrence E. Cline

Small groups of investors and their private armies: the ascendance of private equity firms and their control over private military companies as further evidence of epochal change theory pp. 106-130

Bryan T. Stinchfield

Security sector corruption and military effectiveness: the influence of corruption on countermeasures against Boko Haram in Nigeria pp. 131-158

Daniel Kofi Banini

The ‘strategy bridge’ as the forgotten dimension of effective COIN: the case of Peru and Sendero pp. 159-180

Marina Miron

Ee-imagining Colombia’s new security landscape in the wake of the FARC Peace Accord pp. 181-203

James Rochlin

Horn, Sahel and Rift: Faultlines, of the African Jihad pp. 204-208

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos

Mexico’s illicit drug networks and the state reaction pp. 209-210

Layne Dittmann