Sam C. Sarkesian

Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare

Theories, Doctrines, and Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

""Revolution"" is a word that causes fear in some, exhilaration in others, and confusion in most. Originally used to describe a restoration, it eventually came to mean a sweeping, sudden attack on an existing order. Human history has borne witness to a variety of national and social revolutions population revolution, revolution of ideas, technological revolution, and revolution in education. Simultaneously, there has been a proliferation of literature on revolution, armed struggle, and violence aimed at unseating policies and leadership of governments and societies. Revolutionary struggles are more than simply armed internal conflict; they involve the essence of the political system. The desire to make such phenomena understandable often leads to oversimplification. Attempts to encompass their multi-dimensional nature, on the other hand, can become immersed in complexities, ambiguities, and misinterpretations. The perspective of this classic volume, available in paperback for the first time, is that revolution is here to stay. Guerrilla warfare, according to Sarkesian, is a particularly useful strategy for the weak, the frustrated, the alienated, and seekers of power against existing regimes. The collected works in this volume examine thei?1/2social roots of revolution, development of strategy and tactics, practice in city and countryside, dilemmas of attackers and defenders. The actors and thinkers collected and analyzed here range from leading political analysts, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and officials as well as practitioners of guerrilla warfare. This core text with primary sources in the area of war, revolution, and insurgence develops an understanding of revolution, traces the growth of guerilla doctrine, and studies the specifics of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary guerilla warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9781412813372
• ISBN-10: 1412813379
• Artikelnr.: 28408392

Autorenporträt

Sam C. Sarkesian

Inhaltsangabe

Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: An introduction
II: Revolution
Theories of Revolution
A Theory of Revolution
Psychological Factors in Civil Violence
The J-Curve of Rising and Declining Satisfactions as a Cause of Some Great Revolutions and a Contained Rebellion
Social Revolution as Seen by Bourgeois Ideologists
III: Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: The Development of Doctrine
Selections from Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Clausewitz on Limited War
Partisan Warfare
Selections from Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
IV: Modern Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare in Macro-View: Causes and Contexts
Guerrilla Warfare: Predisposing and Precipitating Factors
Insurgency in the Countryside Of Underdeveloped Countries
The Peasantry as a Political Factor
On Peasant Rebellion
Patron-Client Politics and Change in Southeast Asia
V: Modern Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: Some Micro-Views
The Third Generation of Guerrilla Warfare
The Malayan Emergency-The Roots of Insurgency
Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare: Doctrine, Practice, and Evaluation
Neither Mao, Nor Che: The Practical Evolution of Revolutionary Theory
Political Mobilisation in Guinea-Bissau
Selections from The Struggle for Mozambique
VI: Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
VII: The Problems of the Defenders
Selections from Rebellion and Authority: An Analytic Essay on Insurgent Conflicts *
Some Dilemmas of Counterinsurgency
Batista and Betancourt: Alternative Responses to Violence
An Approach to Future Wars of National Liberation
Morality and National Liberation Wars
VIII: Sources for the Study of Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare