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Counterinsurgency Books
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,872 ratings — published 2002
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 14 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210 ratings — published 1964
Counterinsurgency (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.03 — 724 ratings — published 2010
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,308 ratings — published 2009
Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 9 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 228 ratings — published 1961
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,035 ratings — published 1977
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.79 — 327 ratings — published 2014
Insurgency And Counterinsurgency: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.00 — 22 ratings — published
Wrong Turn: America s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.71 — 113 ratings — published 2013
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,315 ratings — published 2009
Street Without Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,430 ratings — published
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.82 — 617 ratings — published 2006
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,323 ratings — published 2010
On Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,429 ratings — published 1935
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,246 ratings — published 2002
Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.76 — 116 ratings — published 2002
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,984 ratings — published 2006
The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,857 ratings — published
Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.60 — 47 ratings — published 2009
When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.31 — 13 ratings — published 2012
Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,396 ratings — published 1961
Counterinsurgency In Modern Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.70 — 109 ratings — published 2004
War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.16 — 725 ratings — published 1965
Defeating Communist Insurgency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published 1966
Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.54 — 504 ratings — published 1969
The Good Soldiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,726 ratings — published 2009
Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.47 — 70 ratings — published 2007
Counterinsurgency: The Origins, Development & Myths of the New Way of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.37 — 54 ratings — published 2013
Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.70 — 10 ratings — published 2024
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.34 — 786 ratings — published
The Counterinsurgency Era: U.S. Doctrine and Performance, 1950 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published 1977
Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 2008
Low Intensity Operations: Subversion Insurgency & Peacekeeping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.76 — 67 ratings — published 1971
Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750 (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.51 — 39 ratings — published 2001
Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.96 — 245 ratings — published 2018
Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.65 — 82 ratings — published 1896
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.72 — 604 ratings — published 2014
Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.75 — 83 ratings — published 2005
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,644 ratings — published 1988
The Village (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,369 ratings — published 1972
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,222 ratings — published 1966
Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published 2016
War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.08 — 102 ratings — published 1975
Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 23 ratings — published 2006
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.21 — 496 ratings — published 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,418 ratings — published 2016
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,147 ratings — published 2012
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,911 ratings — published 2013
The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 4.05 — 102 ratings — published 2012
Small-Unit Leaders' Guide to Counterinsurgency: The Official U.S. Marine Corps Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as counterinsurgency)
avg rating 3.63 — 27 ratings — published 2013
“Counterinsurgency rests on the assumption that the enemy has significant support in the communities from which it recruits. The aim of counterinsurgency strategy is to deny the enemy any propaganda victories that can further fuel its recruitment. Insurgents must be isolated from their targeted host communities. This requires a combination of psychological, physical and economic warfare, all with the aim of undermining the insurgents’ ideological, operational and financial capabilities.
From: Maajid Nawaz's article titled, 'How to Beat Islamic State', December 11th, 2015”
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From: Maajid Nawaz's article titled, 'How to Beat Islamic State', December 11th, 2015”
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“Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.”
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