1st Edition
Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice, 1500-1850
Preface: ‘The Origins of Small Wars from Special Operations to Ideological Insurgencies’: A National Army Museum response Alastair Massie
Introduction: Exploring the jungle of terminology Beatrice Heuser
1. The sixteenth-century antecedents of special operations ‘small war’ Benjamin Deruelle
2. The essence of war: French armies and small war in the Low Countries (1672 – 1697) Bertrand Fonck and George Satterfield
3. Initiating insurgencies abroad: French plans to ‘chouannise’ Britain and Ireland, 1793 – 1798 Sylvie Kleinman
4. The insurgency of the Vendée Alan Forrest
5. Guerrillas and bandits in the Serranía de Ronda, 1810 – 1812 Charles Esdaile
6. The German wars of liberation 1807 – 1815: The restrained insurgency Martin Rink
7. Poachers turned gamekeepers: A study of the guerrilla phenomenon in Spain, 1808 – 1840 Mark Lawrence
8. Small Wars in the Age of Clausewitz: The Watershed Between Partisan War and People’s War Beatrice Heuser
9. Atrocities in Theory and Practice Beatrice Heuser
10. Lessons learnt? Cultural transfer and revolutionary wars, 1775 – 1831 Beatrice Heuser
Biography
Beatrice Heuser is Chair in International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Her research focuses on strategy, European security, transatlantic relations, Britain, France, USA, Germany, and defence policy making. She has published on nuclear strategy, Clausewitz, and the evolution of strategy since Antiquity.
