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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,164,298 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,727,752 ratings — published 2010
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,303 ratings — published 2009
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,506 ratings — published 2012
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 4 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,204 ratings — published 1964
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,010 ratings — published 2013
1968: The Year that Rocked the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,393 ratings — published 2003
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,988 ratings — published 1977
Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,318 ratings — published 1961
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,931,073 ratings — published 2008
Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 228 ratings — published 1961
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,170 ratings — published 1926
On Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,373 ratings — published 1935
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,870 ratings — published 2002
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 495 ratings — published 2015
Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.76 — 116 ratings — published 2002
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,975 ratings — published 2013
Among the Free (Shadow Children, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,521 ratings — published 2006
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.40 — 55 ratings — published 2014
Possession (Possession, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.58 — 9,541 ratings — published 2011
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,624,447 ratings — published 2012
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,239 ratings — published 2002
War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.08 — 102 ratings — published 1975
The Coming Insurrection (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,797 ratings — published 2007
Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.39 — 64,445 ratings — published 2009
War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.15 — 716 ratings — published 1965
Counterinsurgency (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.04 — 719 ratings — published 2010
Street Without Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,404 ratings — published
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.91 — 873 ratings — published 2004
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.20 — 157 ratings — published 1996
Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,166 ratings — published 2010
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,283 ratings — published 1983
Moondogs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.67 — 428 ratings — published 2011
Abandon (Possession, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,448 ratings — published 2013
“Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 85 ratings — published 2021
Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.68 — 50 ratings — published 2009
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.53 — 763 ratings — published 2010
Denton Little's Deathdate (Denton Little #1)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,876 ratings — published 2015
These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.89 — 291 ratings — published 2005
Writing On The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.57 — 49 ratings — published 2008
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Historical Materialism)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,434 ratings — published 2021
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,129 ratings — published 2018
Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.29 — 45 ratings — published
The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.19 — 142 ratings — published
For Glory And Honour (Warhammer 40,000)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.48 — 33 ratings — published
By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.15 — 482 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,640 ratings — published -411
“But kidnapping is only one of the ways that the Zetas have diversified. They have also branched out into extorting bars and discos; taxing shops; taking money from prostitution rings; stealing cars; robbing crude oil and gasoline; getting money from migrant trafficking; and even pirating their own Zetas-labeled DVDs of the latest blockbuster movies. Drug-trafficking organization is no longer a sufficient term for them; they are a criminal paramilitary complex.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“When you go back to Pablo Ecobar, this guy blew up a passenger plane, police headquarters, funded guerrillas to kill Supreme Court justices, and had the number one Colombian presidential candidate assassinated. Now there is no organization in Colombia that can go toe-to-toe with the government, that can threaten the national security of Colombia. In each successive generation of traffickers there has been a dilution of their power.
“Pablo Escobar lasted fifteen years. The average kingpin here now lasts fifteen months. If you are named as a kingpin here, you are gone. The government of Colombia and the government of the United States will not allow a trafficker to exist long enough to become a viable threat.”
In this analysis, drug enforcement can be seen as a giant hammer that keeps on falling. Any gangster that gets too big gets smashed by the hammer. This is known as cartel decapitation, taking out the heads of the gang. The villains are kept in check. But the drug trade does go on, and so does the war.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“Pablo Escobar lasted fifteen years. The average kingpin here now lasts fifteen months. If you are named as a kingpin here, you are gone. The government of Colombia and the government of the United States will not allow a trafficker to exist long enough to become a viable threat.”
In this analysis, drug enforcement can be seen as a giant hammer that keeps on falling. Any gangster that gets too big gets smashed by the hammer. This is known as cartel decapitation, taking out the heads of the gang. The villains are kept in check. But the drug trade does go on, and so does the war.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
