Encyclopedia of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A New Era of Modern Warfare

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A fascinating look at the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies throughout history with a concentration on the 20th and 21st centuries. This encyclopedia examines insurgenciesand the counterinsurgency efforts they promptthrough history, addressing military actions and the techniques and technologies employed in each conflict, significant insurgency leaders, and the leading theorists, with emphasis on the "small wars" of the 20th century and most recent decades. The clear, concise entries provide a breadth of coverage that ranges from the Maccabean Revolt in 168143 BCE and the Peasants' Revolt in Germany in the 1500s to the American Revolutionary War and the ongoing insurgency in Syria. Readers will gain a solid understanding of how insurgency warfare and counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has played a key role in the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 21st century, and grasp how this important military strategy has evolved during modern times.

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Few publishers do encyclopedias better than ABCCLIO and no editor is more prolific than Spencer C. Tucker. . . . All his products are excellent and this is no exception. . . . All the ABC-CLIO encyclopedias are attractive volumes and are worthy acquisitions for libraries that seek such a resource. * ARBA *

Author Bio

Spencer C. Tucker, PhD, is the senior fellow in military history at ABC-CLIO and is author or editor of more than 40 books and encyclopedias, many of which have won prestigious awards.