Irregular or Guerrilla Forces & Warfare

In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military help to active intervention in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the Afghan National Army deserted in the fi...

Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the worlds population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the worlds conflicts. Mou...

''''A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement'''' William Boyd''''Rick Stroud writes brilli...

This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by t...

Discover the fantastic history of the saboteurs during World War II in the French resistance. Trained by the British secret service, they destroyed...

Black Ops is a skirmish wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond ...

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed a...

Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 R...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private arm...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explore...

Detention and confinementof both combatants and large groups of civilianshave become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last centur...

David Kilcullen is one of the world's foremost experts on guerrilla warfare. His vision of war has been enormously influential, through his service...

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section o...

War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, ar...

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with coun...

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World Wars most daring operations and the fir...