The Greek Civil War: Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy

Cover
Author Biography
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What about the Greek Civil War?
	Why Study the Greek Civil War?
	The Different Interpretations of the Greek Civil War
	Scholarly Work
	Non-Scholarly Work
	Structure of the Book
1. The ‘War of the Flea’: Theory and Practice
	The Ambiguous Concept of Insurgency
	The Strategy of the Insurgents
	Strategy of the Counterinsurgents
2. A Stillborn Peace: February 1945–January 1947
	The ‘White Terror’ (?): 1945
	AWar by Proxy?: 1945
	Weak State-building: February 1945–March 1946
	Bullets and Ballots: March 1946
	‘Long Live the King’: April–September 1946
	Bullets and Olive Branches: September–October 1946
	The Crisis of the Right: October 1946–January 1947
3. A ‘Peace-and-War’ State: January–October 1947
	The ‘Seven-Headed’ Government: January–February 1947
	Greece and the Great Powers: January–May 1947
	The Division of Europe: June–August 1947
	A Marriage of Convenience: August 1947
	The Declaration of War: September–November 1947
4. ‘Communism Delenda Est’: November 1947–October 1949
	From Appeasement to Repression: November 1947
	‘Free Greece’: December 1947–January 1948
	Periculum ex Septentrionalis (Danger from the North)?: February 1948
	The Palace and Army: March–May 1948
	The Tito–Stalin Schism: June 1948
	The High Tide of the DSE: July–December 1948
	A Militarily Supervised Democracy: November 1948–January 1949
	The Insurgency’s Death Rattle: January–October 1949
	Normality Restored: October 1949–50
Conclusion What does the Greek Civil War Teach Us?
	The Significance of the War
	The Various Myths around the War
	The Impact of Strategic Culture
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index