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Book Description
A systematic, comprehensive and straightforward format for analyzing today's insurgencies.
Insurgency and Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare FROM THE PUBLISHER
A systematic, comprehensive, and straightforward textbook for analyzing and comparing insurgencies and terrorist movements, Insurgency and Terrorism was first published in 1990 to broad acclaim. Observers, scholars, students, military personnel, journalists, and government analysts worldwide found it worthy of study. Now Insurgency and Terrorism has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover activity that has since occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Colombia, and elsewhere and to address the new tactics and weapons usedᄑand threatened. Author Bard E. OᄑNeill, the director of studies of insurgency and revolution at the National War College, addresses insurgencies with respect to ultimate goals, strategies, forms of warfare, the role and means of acquiring popular support, organizational dynamics, causes and effects of disunity, types of external support, and government responses. Course syllabi included.
Author Bio: BARD E. OᄑNEILL is a professor of international affairs at the National War College in Washington, where he is also director of Middle East studies and director of studies of insurgency and revolution. His other publication credits include The Energy Crisis and U.S. Foreign Policy, Armed Struggle in Palestine, and The Deadly Embrace. He lives in Springfield, Virginia.