Counter Insurgency: Lessons from History

An international study of counter-insurgency strategies, tactics, and techniques developed in warzones from Vietnam to Latin America and beyond.

Insurgencies account for most of the modern world's armed conflicts. Leading armies across the globe are constantly developing and adjusting counter-insurgency strategies based on experience in the field. Learning from this experience is essential to ongoing peacekeeping effort.

Editors Ian Beckett and John Pimlott brought together a team of exper...