Small Wars and Insurgencies

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Rich

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Call for Chapters pp. (985)-(987): The Editors
Problems with the Kurds as proxies against Islamic State: insights from the siege of Kobane pp. 865-885: Rod Thornton
Cognitivism, prospect theory, and foreign policy change: a comparative analysis of the politics of counterinsurgency in Malaya and Afghanistan pp. 886-911: Eszter Simon
Fighting on Their Own Terms: The Tactics of the Irish Republican Army 1919-1921 pp. 912-936: Maura R. Cremin
Soldiers contra diplomats: Britain’s role in the Zimbabwe/Rhodesia ceasefire (1979–1980) reconsidered pp. 937-956: Blessing-Miles Tendi
Delusions of survival: US deliberations on support for South Vietnam during the 1975 ‘Final Offensive’ pp. 957-975: Jeffrey H. Michaels
Notes on Contributors pp. 976-976: The Editors
The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency pp. 977-983: Paul B. Rich
Fight or Flight: Britain, France and their Roads from Empire pp. 983-985: Andrew Williams
Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire pp. 985-987: Edward Burke
Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi: The Editors

Notes on Contributors pp. 719-720: The Editors
At war with social theory: Instrumental and communicative action in US military doctrine during the War on Terror pp. 721-743: Stephen Pampinella
Croatia's bitter harvest: Total National Defence's role in the Croatian War of Independence pp. 744-763: James Horncastle
The view from above: how the Royal Air Force provided a strategic vision for operational intelligence during the Malayan Emergency pp. 764-789: Roger Arditti
The African warlord revisited pp. 790-810: Laura Freeman
Bush path to self-destruction: Charles Taylor and the Revolutionary United Front pp. 811-835: Christopher Day
When the Going Gets Tough… Monitoring Missions and a Changing Conflict Environment in Sri Lanka, 2002–2008 pp. 836-860: Kristine Höglund and Marcus Wennerström
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse pp. 861-864: Will Carter

Notes on Contributors pp. 557-557: The Editors
Introduction pp. 558-577: Paul B. Rich
Swords, sandals, and insurgencies: Ancient history goes to the movies pp. 578-596: Rose Mary Sheldon
Abd el-Krim's guerrilla war against Spain and France in North Africa: An adventure setting for screen melodramas pp. 597-615: Mevliyar Er and Paul B. Rich
Z and other cinematic tales from the 30-year Greek civil war pp. 616-639: Marina Eleftheriadou
Rossellini, Pontecorvo, and the neorealist cinema of insurgency pp. 640-667: Paul B. Rich
Spies, advisors, and grunts: Film portrayals of counterinsurgency in Vietnam pp. 668-687: Jeffrey H. Michaels and Andrew J. Gawthorpe
Bandit Queen: Cinematic representation of social banditry in India pp. 688-701: Shanthie Mariet D'Souza and Bibhu Prasad Routray
Cinematic representations of the Mexican Narco War pp. 702-716: Robert J. Bunker and José de Arimatéia da Cruz
Call for Chapters: Police Advising and Assistance pp. 717-717: The Editors

Notes on Contributors pp. 343-344: The Editors
COIN: A study of strategic illusion pp. 345-376: Amitai Etzioni
COIN fights: A response to Etzioni pp. 377-382: John A. Nagl
Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Taliban of Afghanistan: ‘Puritanical reform’ as a ‘revolutionary war’ program pp. 383-407: Shivan Mahendrarajah
Counterinsurgency and the limits of state-building: An analysis of Colombia's policy of territorial consolidation, 2006–2012 pp. 408-428: Jorge E. Delgado
Challenges in building partner capacity: Civil–military relations in the United States and new democracies pp. 429-445: Thomas Bruneau
Past failures and future problems: the psychology of irregular war pp. 446-458: Phil Reynolds
Intelligence and intelligence operations in Romanian anti-partisan warfare, 1944–1958 pp. 459-475: Andrei Miroiu
Transnational networks of insurgency and crime: explaining the spread of commercial insurgencies beyond state borders pp. 476-496: Oscar Palma
Capacity and competence: full-spectrum counterinsurgency in the Horn of Africa pp. 497-517: Paul E. Roitsch
Army of darkness: The jihadist training system in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1996–2001 pp. 518-541: Sean M. Maloney
ISIL, insurgent strategies for statehood, and the challenge for security studies pp. 542-556: Noriyuki Katagiri

Notes on Contributors pp. 207-207: The Editors
Strategic differences: Al Qaeda's Split with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham pp. 208-225: John Turner
‘Ser Eleno’: Insurgent identity formation in the ELN pp. 226-247: Barbara Gruber and Jan Pospisil
‘Taylor must go’ – the strategy of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy pp. 248-270: Ilmari Käihkö
‘Troops were then forced to fire’: British army crowd control in Palestine, November 1945 pp. 271-291: Giora Goodman
A lost work of El Lobo: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T.R. Bohannan's unpublished study of guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency in the Philippines, 1899–1955 pp. 292-312: Jason S. Ridler
Texas Ranger Auxiliaries: Double-Edged Sword of the Campaign for Northern Mexico, 1846–1848 pp. 313-334: Nathan A. Jennings
Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism pp. 335-337: Elena Pokalova
Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 pp. 337-339: Ryan Shaffer
A la cima sobre los hombros del diablo pp. 339-342: Thomas A. Marks

Notes on Contributors pp. 1-2: The Editors
Crossing off names: the logic of military assassination pp. 3-24: Simon Frankel Pratt
The creation of committed combatants pp. 25-48: Roos Haer and Lilli Banholzer
Controlled warfare: how directed-energy weapons will enable the US Military to fight effectively in an urban environment while minimizing collateral damage pp. 49-71: Stephen D. Davis
Comprehensive approaches, diverse coherences: the different levels of policy coherence in the Dutch 3D approach in Afghanistan pp. 72-89: Jaïr van der Lijn
Local defence forces and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: learning from the CIA's Village Defense Program in South Vietnam pp. 90-113: Jon Strandquist
French military policy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970 pp. 114-135: Christopher Griffin
Exporting professionalism: US efforts to reform the armed forces in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, 1916–1933 pp. 136-157: Eric R. Rittinger
A long small war: Italian counterrevolutionary warfare in Libya, 1911 to 1932 pp. 158-180: Frederick H. Dotolo
When the green gets greener: political Islam's newly-found environmentalism pp. 181-201: Emmanuel Karagiannis
War comes to Garmser: thirty years of conflict on the Afghan frontier pp. 202-204: William Carter
Mercenaries: putting the world to rights with hired guns pp. 204-206: John P. Cann