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Author : Steven D. Smith
Release : 2019
Genre : TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
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Book Synopsis Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars by : Steven D. Smith
Download or read book Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars written by Steven D. Smith. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irwin R. Blacker
Release : 2016-11-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Irregulars, Partisans, Guerrillas by : Irwin R. Blacker
Download or read book Irregulars, Partisans, Guerrillas written by Irwin R. Blacker. This book was released on 2016-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1954, this is a collection of 32 stories from a variety of historic eras filled with missions against all odds. “The stories in this collection are generally firsthand accounts by irregulars. The principles of selection were simple: Were they good stories—interesting, exciting and honest? And did they show fresh and different phases of guerrilla warfare? The weightier writings on irregular strategy and the politics of modern partisan warfare were omitted except for T. E. Lawrence’s classic chapter on the former and Julian Amery’s brilliant and brief analysis of the latter. “I have tried briefly to set these stories in time and circumstance. As editor I have tried not to draw the fine lines between resistance which takes place in urban communities and guerrilla warfare which requires space for movement. I have tried not to belabor the differences between regulars as irregulars and the native guerrilla in the field. I have avoided the fine lines drawn between a guerrilla who attempts sabotage and the saboteur, the guerrilla who collects intelligence and the spy. In short, if too rigid a definition is observed, a fascinating and vital subject could be reduced to a dull and academic one. The irregular’s objective is simply to destroy the enemy. This book attempts to tell of the many ways in which he has tried, and is still trying, to do so.”—Irwin R. Blacker, Introduction
Author : Steven D. Smith
Release : 2019-06-25
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars by : Steven D. Smith
Download or read book Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars written by Steven D. Smith. This book was released on 2019-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable subdiscipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conflicts involving asymmetric, guerilla, or irregular warfare are largely missing from the historical record. Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces readers to this growing study and to its historic importance. Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of life, which are otherwise lost in time. The case studies offered cover significant events in American and world history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Indian wars in the Southeast and Southwest, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Prohibition, and World War II. All such examples used here took place at a local or regional level, and several were singular events within a much larger and more complex historic movement. While retained in local memory or tradition, and despite their potential importance, they are poorly, and incompletely addressed in the historic record. Furthermore, these conflicts took place between groups of significantly different cultural and military traditions and capabilities, most taking on a “David vs. Goliath” character, further shaping the definition of asymmetric warfare.
Author : Francis Lieber
Release : 1862
Genre : Guerrilla warfare
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Book Synopsis Guerrilla Parties by : Francis Lieber
Download or read book Guerrilla Parties written by Francis Lieber. This book was released on 1862. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published a year before Lieber's code, this pamphlet contains several ideas that were incorporated into that work. Halleck's commission resonates with our current debates concerning the definition of 'enemy combatants' and prisoners of war. In the letter to Lieber that is reproduced as a preface Halleck states: 'The rebel authorities claim the right to send men, in the garb of peaceful citizens, to waylay and attack our troops, to burn bridges and houses, and to destroy property and persons within our lines. They demand such persons be treated as ordinary belligerents, and that when captured they have extended to them the same rights as other prisoners of war; they also threaten that if such persons be punished as marauders and spies, they will retaliate by executing our prisoners of war in their possession. I particularly request your view on these questions.'"--Lawbook Exchange.
Author : Otto Heilbrunn
Release : 2021-11-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Partisan Warfare by : Otto Heilbrunn
Download or read book Partisan Warfare written by Otto Heilbrunn. This book was released on 2021-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1962, was the first systematic study of partisan war, investigating questions thrown up by the success of guerrillas in the Second World War, where they were never decisively beaten by regular armies. Drawing on lessons from Soviet Russia and China in particular, areas with especially active and large partisan forces, this book evolves a doctrine of guerrilla war in modern conditions, with an analysis of partisans in post-war Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Vietnam, Algeria, Cuba and Laos.
