Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies

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Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies surveys guerrilla warfare and state responses from the eighteenth century to the modern era. Beckett compares insurgencies created by nationalism, revolution, anti-colonial resistance and ideological conflict, while examining intelligence, population control, military adaptation and political legitimacy. By placing campaigns from different regions in a common framework, the book shows why irregular war cannot be understood purely as a problem of battlefield tactics.