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This is the first major work to be published which analyses the
phenomenon of revolutions based on a Maoist model, namely Thailand,
the Philippines, Peru and Sri Lanka. Unlike the Vietnamese
Communists, however, all these insurgencies modelled on Mao have
failed, having been successfully contained by their governments.
The question is how did the world's strongest power - America -
fail where Third World governments have succeeded? The author seeks
to provide the answers in order to learn not only about the Maoist
'people's war' and counter-insurgency, but also to identify the
factors which contribute to a revolution.
This is the first major work to be published which analyses the
phenomenon of revolutions based on a Maoist model, namely Thailand,
the Philippines, Peru and Sri Lanka. Unlike the Vietnamese
Communists, however, all these insurgencies modelled on Mao have
failed, having been successfully contained by their governments.
The question is how did the world's strongest power - America -
fail where Third World governments have succeeded? The author seeks
to provide the answers in order to learn not only about the Maoist
'people's war' and counter-insurgency, but also to identify the
factors which contribute to a revolution.
Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of
American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the
post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have
emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional,
and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there
is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges
and correct responses. Expert contributors explore the reasoning
behind the inability to achieve victory, however defined, and argue
that what security professionals have failed to fully recognize,
even today, is that what is at issue is not warfare suffused with
politics but rather the very opposite, politics suffused with
warfare. Perspectives on the American Way of War will be of great
interest to scholars of war and conflict studies, strategic and
military studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and terrorism
and counterterrorism. The book was originally published as a
special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
This ground-breaking book spans 60 years of modern Chinese history
from the much neglected non-communist perspective. Concentrating on
Wang Sheng's career in relation to Chiang Kai-Shek's extraordinary
son Chiang Ching-Kuo, it shows that the KMT were perfecting the
methods that were to make Taiwan an East Asian Tiger' economy at
the very point that they lost' the mainland. The book also provides
a fascinating insight into Taiwan's efforts to aid South Vietnam
and Cambodia from 1960 as the Indochina war unfolded.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of
American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the
post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have
emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional,
and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there
is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges
and correct responses. Expert contributors explore the reasoning
behind the inability to achieve victory, however defined, and argue
that what security professionals have failed to fully recognize,
even today, is that what is at issue is not warfare suffused with
politics but rather the very opposite, politics suffused with
warfare. Perspectives on the American Way of War will be of great
interest to scholars of war and conflict studies, strategic and
military studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and terrorism
and counterterrorism. The book was originally published as a
special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Insurgency-the use of protracted low intensity violence and
political warfare against a government-has been one of the most
pervasive and strategically signifi cant forms of asymmetric confl
ict for the past century. In some instances, it actually has
succeeded in overthrowing regimes or forcing occupying powers to
withdraw from a state, thus redrawing the strategic landscape and
altering the course of history. Few other forms of asymmetric confl
ict can make this claim. Just as HIV is a particularly dangerous
pathology because it integrates with other diseases, insurgency
tends to meld with other forms of confl ict, be they terrorism,
ethnic struggles, separatism, class struggle, ideological confl
ict, narcotraffi cking, or other forms of organized crime. This
makes it both a complex and a particularly dangerous opponent,
always challenging to the strategist who must deal with it. The
United States is once again challenged by insurgencies, this time
connected to the Global War on Terrorism.
A sea-change has occurred in troubled Colombia, as detailed in this
monograph. For the first time in 40 years, cautious optimism
pervades discussions of Bogota's seemingly intractable situation.
Drugs, terrorism, and insurgency continue in their explosive mix,
but the current government of President Alvaro Uribe has fashioned
a counterinsurgency approach that holds the strategic initiative
and has a chance of negating a long-standing security threat to the
state. This is critical if Colombian democratic and economic
advances are to continue. Colombia has become synonymous in the
popular mind with an intractable war waged against
narco-terrorists. Not as understood is the strategic setting,
wherein the illegal drug trade is not just linked to terrorism but
rather is an integral part of a leftwing insurgency that continues
to talk the language of the Cold War. This insurgency is the
greatest threat to Bogota and to Washington's interests in the
region.
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