Introduction: Back to the future – people’s war in the 21st century
Thomas A. Marks and Paul B. Rich
1. Revolutionary leadership as necessary element in people’s war: Shining Path of Peru
David Scott Palmer
2. People’s war antithesis: Che Guevara and the mythology of Focismo
Paul B. Rich
3. FARC, 1982–2002: criminal foundation for insurgent defeat
Thomas A. Marks
4. Was FARC militarily defeated?
Carlos Alberto Ospina Ovalle
5. Critical ingredient: US aid to counterinsurgency in Colombia
Carlos G. Berrios
6. A double-edged sword: the people’s uprising in Ghazni, Afghanistan
Matthew P. Dearing
7. The North Caucasus: from mass mobilization to international terrorism
Elena Pokalova
8. Bolivia, a new model insurgency for the 21st century: from Mao back to Lenin
David E. Spencer and Hugo Acha Melgar
Biography
Thomas A. Marks is Distinguished Professor and MG Edward Lansdale Chair of Irregular Warfighting Strategy, College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC, USA. He has authored hundreds of publications, to include the benchmark Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam, and served as the Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy at the Marine Corps University (Quantico), as well as longtime adjunct professor at AFSOS (Hurlburt Field) and the Sherman Kent School (Washington, DC). A former army and US government officer, he has worked as an independent contractor, including for Control Risks of London.
Paul B. Rich is editor of the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies and author/editor of over ten books including The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, State Power and Black Politics in South Africa, Crisis in the Caucasus: Russia, Georgia and the West, The Counter Insurgent State, and Warlords in International Relations. He holds a BA from the University of Sussex in International Relations and International History, an MA from the University of York in Politics, and a PhD from the University of Warwick. His research interests are in insurgency, counterinsurgency and hybrid warfare with particular reference to the Middle East and post-Soviet politics.
