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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency - A Global History (Hardcover)
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency - A Global History (Hardcover)
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This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of
counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the
conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial
to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a
global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American
and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to
trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. Interweaving
thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring
linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and
changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which
power politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating
new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and
public views. Tracing insurgencies ranging from China to Africa to
Latin America, Black highlights the widely differing military and
political dimensions of each conflict. He weighs how, and why,
lessons were "learned" or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and
counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons
learned by contemporaries, the ways in which norms developed within
militaries and societies, and their impact on doctrine and policy.
His sweeping study of insurrectionary warfare and its
counterinsurgency counterpart will be essential reading for all
students of military history.
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