War of the flea : the classic study of guerrilla warfare
Taber, Robert2002
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Main title:
War of the flea : the classic study of guerrilla warfare / Robert Taber ; with a foreword by Brad E. O'Neill.
Author:
Imprint:
Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, c2002.
Collation:
xiv, 199 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : L. Stuart, 1965.Includes index.
Contents:
The wind of revolution -- Popular will as the key to strategy -- The confrontation of the haves and the have-nots -- Fallacies of counterinsurgency -- Guerrilla war as an extension of politics -- Cracks in the armor of the modern state -- The war of the flea -- Political and military objectives -- Creating "the climate of collapse." -- Organization of insurgent forces -- Guevara on guerrilla war: the base -- Inception and evolution of an insurgency -- Transition to civil war -- Alternative solutions -- The Cuban example -- Protracted war -- Popular forces versus regular armies -- The guerrilla as missionary -- Mao Tse-tung on the war of the flea -- The lessons of China -- Colonial war and the French experience -- Strategy and tactics of Vo Nguyen Giap -- How the Vietminh won in Indochina -- The political character of the Second Indochina War -- The American role -- Expansion of the war -- The outlook -- Wars of national liberation and their cost -- The Irish "troubles" and the role of the Black and Tans -- Terrorism in Israel -- Rebellion in North Africa -- General Grivas on guerrilla war in Cyprus -- The political uses of terrorism -- Errors of British strategy -- Failures in the war of the flea -- Magsaysay and the Huks in the Philippines -- The price of British victory in Malaya -- Why the Communists lost in Greece -- Sun Tzu on The Art of War -- Principles of guerrilla strategy and tactics -- Terrain as a determining factor -- Guerrilla war in urban areas -- The character of the guerrilla -- Guerrilla movements in the Third World -- The revolutionary base -- Outlook for the United States -- Proposals for a new American foreign policy in Latin America.
ISBN:
9781574885552 (alk paper)1574885553 (alk paper)
Dewey class:
355.0218
LC class:
U240U240 TAB
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4372