Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Volume 30, issue 6-7, 2019

Gender, insurgency, and terrorism: introduction to the special issue pp. 1077-1088

Srobana Bhattacharya

Understanding women at war: a mixed-methods exploration of leadership in non-state armed groups pp. 1089-1116

Alexis Henshaw, June Eric-Udorie, Hannah Godefa, Kathryn Howley, Cat Jeon, Elise Sweezy and Katheryn Zhao

The ballot or the bomb belt: the roots of female suicide terrorism before and after 9/11 pp. 1117-1150

Nakissa P. Jahanbani and Charmaine N. Willis

Nigerian women and the trends of kidnapping in the era of Boko Haram insurgency: patterns and evolution pp. 1151-1168

James Okolie-Osemene and Rosemary I. Okolie-Osemene

Worth many sins: Al-Shabaab’s shifting relationship with Kenyan women pp. 1169-1192

Katharine Petrich and Phoebe Donnelly

Radicalizing female empowerment: gender, agency, and affective appeals in Islamic State propaganda pp. 1193-1213

Bidisha Biswas and Shirin Deylami

Boko Haram insurgency and gendered victimhood: women as corporal victims and objects of war pp. 1214-1232

Al Chukwuma Okoli and Stephen Nnaemeka Azom

The ligaments of counter-terrorism regime: sexual violence and the vicarious traumatisation of female non-governmental organisation workers: evidence from Nigeria pp. 1233-1263

Emeka Thaddues Njoku

Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present pp. 1264-1273

Paul B. Rich

Mexico’s illicit drug networks and the state reaction pp. 1274-1275

Layne Dittmann

Dirty war: Rhodesia and chemical biological warfare: 1975–1980 pp. 1275-1278

J. R. T. Wood

Volume 30, issue 4-5, 2019

Why a nineteenth-century study? pp. 719-733

Mark Lawrence

The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten, disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762 pp. 734-749

Charles Esdaile

Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors pp. 750-774

Yingcong Dai

Regular and irregular forces in conflict: nineteenth century insurgencies in South America pp. 775-796

Alejandro M. Rabinovich and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

The First Carlist War (1833–40), insurgency, Ramón Cabrera, and expeditionary warfare pp. 797-817

Mark Lawrence

Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War pp. 818-840

Susan-Mary Grant

Memory, magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars, from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920) pp. 841-871

Nathaniel Morris

Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression pp. 872-894

Giacomo Macola and Jack Hogan

Ireland: rebellion and counter-insurgency, 1848–1867 pp. 895-912

Timothy Bowman

‘The extraordinary successes which the Russians have achieved’ - the Conquest of Central Asia in Callwell’s Small Wars pp. 913-936

Alexander Morrison

General Zuo’s counter-insurgency doctrine pp. 937-967

Kenneth M. Swope

A predisposition to brutality? German practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate pp. 968-993

Bastian Matteo Scianna

The campaign of the lost footsteps: the pacification of Burma, 1885-95 pp. 994-1019

Ian F. W. Beckett

The Force Publique’s campaigns in the Congo-Arab War, 1892-1894 pp. 1020-1039

Mario Draper

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa pp. 1040-1069

Richard Reid

Max Hastings and the Vietnam war pp. 1070-1076

Paul B. Rich

Volume 30, issue 3, 2019

Transforming Mexico’s energy field: the intended consequences of a drug war pp. 489-517

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Organized insurgency, lethality, and target selection: Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah pp. 518-542

Nori Katagiri

Territoriality of radical Islam: comparative analysis of jihadist groups' approach to territory pp. 543-562

Bohumil Doboš, Martin Riegl and Stig Jarle Hansen

The impact of Islamic State’s ideological correction initiative on al Qaeda’s bid for relevance pp. 563-586

John Turner

Playing dirty to survive: the vulnerability of civilian targets within U.S. military aid recipient states pp. 587-614

Amira Jadoon

British operations among the people and civilian risk pp. 615-640

Cornelius Friesendorf

Reassessing private military and security company (PMSC) ‘competition‘ in civil war: lessons from Sierra Leone pp. 641-659

Christopher M. Faulkner, Joshua E. Lambert and Jonathan M. Powell

From small wars to counterinsurgency: C.W. Gwynn, ‘Imperial Policing’ and transformation of doctrine pp. 660-678

Stanislav Malkin

Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan? pp. 679-702

Majak D’Agoôt

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War: volume 1 (Invasion, Insurgency, Civil War 2003-2006) pp. 703-718

Thomas A. Marks and Michael S. Bell

Military anthropology: soldiers, scholars and subjects at the margins of empire pp. 709-716

Paul B Rich

Apartheid, guns and money: a tale of profit pp. 716-718

Tom Lodge

Volume 30, issue 2, 2019

ISIS-K: deadly nuisance or strategic threat? pp. 265-278

Paul Lushenko, Lance Van Auken and Garrett Stebbins

How they joined? Militants and informers in the armed conflict in Donbas pp. 279-306

Serhiy Kudelia

Behind the enemy line: British-led guerrilla operations in the Indo-Burma frontier during the Second World War pp. 307-334

Pum Khan Pau

Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own peril: Rhodesian propaganda warfare during the Zimbabwe war of liberation in Chilonga, Chiredzi South-East of Zimbabwe pp. 335-366

Enock Ndawana and Amos Zevure

The Zimbabwe people’s revolutionary army military operations in Makonde District and the attack on Salisbury’s fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979 pp. 367-391

Takawira Chatambudza and Mediel Hove

How do sources of traditional legitimacy constrain popular uprisings? The case of the Kingdom of Swaziland pp. 392-420

Fenja Søndergaard Møller

The revisionist historiography of Britain’s decolonisation conflicts and political science theses of civilian victimisation in counterinsurgency pp. 421-446

Fausto Scarinzi

Colonial violence and its ‘Small Wars’: fighting the Kuki ‘guerillas’ during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917–1919 pp. 447-478

Jangkhomang Guite

Political violence in ancient India pp. 479-486

Rose Mary Sheldon

Political violence in ancient India pp. 479-481

Rose Mary Sheldon

Russian hybrid warfare: resurgence and politicisation pp. 482-484

Scott Jasper

Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer pp. 484-486

Mark McLay

Notes on Contributors pp. 487-488

The Editors

Volume 30, issue 1, 2019

Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience in irregular conflict pp. 1-13

Thomas A. Marks and Kirklin J. Bateman

The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion pp. 14-30

Craig A. Deare

Birth of the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece pp. 31-61

Andrew Novo

Organizing for the ‘gray zone’ fight: early Cold War realities and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations pp. 62-80

David P. Oakley

Counterinsurgency in Vietnam – schizophrenia until too late pp. 81-100

Rufus Phillips

Turning gangsters into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan pp. 101-139

Matthew P. Dearing

Iraq, 2003–2011: succeeding to fail pp. 140-175

Jeanne Godfroy and Liam Collins

The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger pp. 176-199

LTC Joseph Guido

Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT pp. 200-222

Steve Miska and Samuel Romano

Systems failure: the US way of irregular warfare pp. 223-254

David H. Ucko

The last great historian: Walter Laqueur and political violence pp. 255-262

Christopher Wall

Notes on Contributors pp. 263-264

The Editors