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Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from eighteenth-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today. Insurgency remains one of the most prevalent forms of conflict and presents a crucial challenge to the international community, governments and the military. In addition to examining the tactics of guerrilla leaders such as Lawrence, Mao, Guevara and Marighela, Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies also analyses the counter-insurgency theories of Gallieni, Callwell, Thompson and Kitson. It explores such conflicts as: * the American War of Independence * Napoleon's campaign in Spain * the wars of decolonisation * the superpowers in Vietnam and Afghanistan * conflicts in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and Colombia.

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this is a first rate book [with] an excellent up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter. <br>-The International History Review, December 2002 <br>

this is a first rate book [with] an excellent up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter. -The International History Review, December 2002

"""this is a first rate book [with] an excellent up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter."" -The International History Review, December 2002"

this is a first rate book [with] an excellent up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter. -The International History Review, December 2002

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Ian F. W. Beckett is Professor of Modern History at the University of Luton and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His many publications include The Amateur Military Tradition (1991) and Encycolpedia of Guerrilla Warfare (1999)

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