Regular Armies and Insurgency (RLE: Terrorism & Insurgency)

by Ronald Haycock (Editor)

Overview

Conflicts between regular armies and various groups of insurgents, fighting for a range of causes, are some of the most protracted and extensive military crises to have emerged in recent years. The introduction provides a point on which the five major historical examples that follow may be compared and contrasted. Similarities and differences between some of the more important episodes from this century are highlighted; similarities such as the role of intelligence, the value of police work and the necesity of expert political assessment and differences such as the factors of time or geography, or more strategically, success or failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138902701
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2015
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Terrorism and Insurgency
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ronald Haycock is Assistant Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. Born in Ingersoll, Ontario, Dr Haycock received his education at Waterloo Lutheran University, the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario. He is author of the Image of the Indian (1971) and in 1978 was the Symposium Director for RMC's Fifth Annual Military History Symposium on 'Regular Armies and Insurgency'.

Table of Contents

1. Regular Armies and Insurgency Robert G. K. Thompson 2. Regular Armies and Insurgency: the Case of Mexico Edwin Lieuwen 3. The Irish Insurgency, 1918-21: The Military Problem Charles Townshend 4. The Malayan Emergency Anthony Short 5. The French Army and the Algerian War, 1954-62 Alistair Horne 6. America and Vietnam: The Failure of Strategy Herbert Y. Schandler