Small Wars and Insurgencies

Colonial violence and its ‘Small Wars’: fighting the Kuki ‘guerillas’ during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917–1919

The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger

The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion

The ballot or the bomb belt: the roots of female suicide terrorism before and after 9/11

Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT

Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression

Turning gangsters into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan

ISIS-K: deadly nuisance or strategic threat?

Systems failure: the US way of irregular warfare

Reassessing private military and security company (PMSC) ‘competition‘ in civil war: lessons from Sierra Leone

Counterinsurgency in Vietnam – schizophrenia until too late

Organizing for the ‘gray zone’ fight: early Cold War realities and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations

Birth of the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece

Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience in irregular conflict

From small wars to counterinsurgency: C.W. Gwynn, ‘Imperial Policing’ and transformation of doctrine

How do sources of traditional legitimacy constrain popular uprisings? The case of the Kingdom of Swaziland

Memory, magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars, from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920)

Radicalizing female empowerment: gender, agency, and affective appeals in Islamic State propaganda

Understanding women at war: a mixed-methods exploration of leadership in non-state armed groups

Notes on Contributors

Ireland: rebellion and counter-insurgency, 1848–1867

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

Organized insurgency, lethality, and target selection: Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah

General Zuo’s counter-insurgency doctrine

The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten, disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762

Worth many sins: Al-Shabaab’s shifting relationship with Kenyan women

Dirty war: Rhodesia and chemical biological warfare: 1975–1980

‘The extraordinary successes which the Russians have achieved’ - the Conquest of Central Asia in Callwell’s Small Wars

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War: volume 1 (Invasion, Insurgency, Civil War 2003-2006)

Boko Haram insurgency and gendered victimhood: women as corporal victims and objects of war

Iraq, 2003–2011: succeeding to fail

The campaign of the lost footsteps: the pacification of Burma, 1885-95

The last great historian: Walter Laqueur and political violence

Why a nineteenth-century study?

Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own Peril: Rhodesian propaganda warfare during the Zimbabwe war of liberation in Chilonga, Chiredzi South-East of Zimbabwe

Regular and irregular forces in conflict: nineteenth century insurgencies in South America

Gender, insurgency, and terrorism: introduction to the special issue

The revisionist historiography of Britain’s decolonisation conflicts and political science theses of civilian victimisation in counterinsurgency

The First Carlist War (1833–40), insurgency, Ramón Cabrera, and expeditionary warfare

Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors

The impact of Islamic State’s ideological correction initiative on al Qaeda’s bid for relevance

Transforming Mexico’s energy field: the intended consequences of a drug war

Nigerian women and the trends of kidnapping in the era of Boko Haram insurgency: patterns and evolution

The Zimbabwe people’s revolutionary army military operations in Makonde district and the attack on Salisbury’s fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979

Playing dirty to survive: the vulnerability of civilian targets within U.S. military aid recipient states

A predisposition to brutality? German practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate

British operations among the people and civilian risk