1st Edition

Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare Theories, Doctrines, and Contexts

By Sam C. Sarkesian Copyright 1975
650 Pages
by Routledge

623 Pages
by Routledge

623 Pages
by Routledge

""Revolution"" is a word that causes fear in some, exhilaration in others, and confusion in most. Originally used to describe a restoration, it eventually came to mean a sweeping, sudden attack on an existing order. Human history has borne witness to a variety of national and social revolutions population revolution, revolution of ideas, technological revolution, and revolution in education.... Read more
Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: An introduction; II: Revolution; Theories of Revolution; A Theory of Revolution; Psychological Factors in Civil Violence; The J-Curve of Rising and Declining Satisfactions as a Cause of Some Great Revolutions and a Contained Rebellion; Social Revolution as Seen by Bourgeois Ideologists; III: Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: The Development of Doctrine; Selections from Sun Tzu, The Art of War; Clausewitz on Limited War; Partisan Warfare; Selections from Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung; IV: Modern Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare in Macro-View: Causes and Contexts; Guerrilla Warfare: Predisposing and Precipitating Factors; Insurgency in the Countryside Of Underdeveloped Countries; The Peasantry as a Political Factor; On Peasant Rebellion; Patron-Client Politics and Change in Southeast Asia; V: Modern Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare: Some Micro-Views; The Third Generation of Guerrilla Warfare; The Malayan Emergency—The Roots of Insurgency; Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare: Doctrine, Practice, and Evaluation; Neither Mao, Nor Che: The Practical Evolution of Revolutionary Theory; Political Mobilisation in Guinea-Bissau; Selections from The Struggle for Mozambique; VI: Urban Guerrilla Warfare; Urban Guerrilla Warfare; Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla; VII: The Problems of the Defenders; Selections from Rebellion and Authority: An Analytic Essay on Insurgent Conflicts *; Some Dilemmas of Counterinsurgency; Batista and Betancourt: Alternative Responses to Violence; An Approach to Future Wars of National Liberation; Morality and National Liberation Wars; VIII: Sources for the Study of Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare

Biography

Sam C. Sarkesian