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. . Language: English