Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Guerrillas and Counterinsurgency in History....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Gender and ‘Population-centric’ Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan....Pages 25-46
‘The Best Fellagha Hunter is the French of North African Descent’: Harkis in French Algeria....Pages 47-66
‘Black-and-Tan Tendencies’: Policing Insurgency in the Palestine Mandate, 1922–48....Pages 67-88
‘The Entire Population of this God-forsaken Island is Terrorised by a Small Band of Gun-men’: Guerrillas and Civilians During the Irish Revolution....Pages 89-108
American Civil War Guerrillas....Pages 109-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Insurgent Identities, Destructive Discourses, and Militarized Massacre: French Armies on the Warpath against Insurgents in the Vendée, Italy, and Egypt....Pages 133-154
Lords of the Forests in Flanders: Small War by Freebooters and the Dutch Contributions System in Flanders, 1584–1592....Pages 155-176
‘A Great Company of Country Clowns’: Guerrilla Warfare in the East Anglian and Western Rebellions (1549)....Pages 177-195
Good King Robert’s Testament?: Guerrilla Warfare in Later Medieval Scotland....Pages 197-217
Guerilla Warfare and Revolt in Second Century Bc Egypt....Pages 219-230
Unorthodox Warfare? Variety and Change in Archaic Greek Warfare (ca. 700–ca. 480 BCE)....Pages 231-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-264