Tag: Insurgency

Free Download The True Story of the Taliban: Emirate and Insurgency, 1994-2021
by Ibrahim Moiz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9670957621 | 539 Pages | ePUB | 0.68 MB

Free Download Jose L. Luis Velasco, "Insurgency, Authoritarianism, and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Democratization "
English | ISBN: 0415648610 | 2013 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
Mexico’s "democratic transition" has created a competitive electoral system and a formally plural state. Besides, a peculiar wave of insurgency, started in 1994, has challenged the alleged moderating effect of democratic transition. This book argues that socioeconomic inequality is the main factor behind this combination of democratic and undemocratic trends.

Free Download Jeremy Black, "Insurgency Warfare: A Global History to the Present"
English | ISBN: 1538179407 | 2023 | 338 pages | EPUB | 506 KB
This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war. Interweaving thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views.

Free Download Daniel Douek, "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1849048800 | PDF | pages: 530 | 4.4 mb
South Africa’s transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime’s counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress’ armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyses in unprecedented detail the hidden history of MK’s struggle and its contribution to South Africa’s liberation, while exposing new dimensions of clandestine apartheid-era violence. Drawing on interviews with former MK guerrillas, Daniel Douek traces the evolution of MK’s operations across southern Africa from the 1960s, culminating in the 1990-4 negotiations between the ANC and the white supremacist regime. As political violence escalated, the battle waged in the shadows became nothing less than a struggle to shape South Africa’s future. Counterinsurgency forces recruited spies, deployed death squads, engaged in psychological warfare, and targeted ANC leaders, including MK chief Chris Hani. Even once ANC elites had come to power, apartheid counterinsurgency operations continued to undermine South Africa’s new democracy by marginalizing MK guerrillas within the ‘new’ security forces, leaving legacies of violence and instability still felt today.

Free Download Tim Benbow: Rod, Rod Thornton, "Dimensions of Counter-insurgency: Applying Experience to Practice"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0415450373, 0415761999 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.4 mb
The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of both good and bad practice.

Free Download Mark Lawrence, "Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929: Fighting Cristeros"
English | ISBN: 1350095451 | 2020 | 208 pages | EPUB | 567 KB
Waged between 1926 and 1929, The Cristero War (also known as The Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada) resulted from a religious insurrectionary movement, which formed in protest of the Mexican Revolution’s anticlerical constitution of 1917. It was arguably the most violent and divisive episode in Mexican history between the 1910 Revolution itself and the ongoing ‘Narco Wars’. Filling in major gaps in our understanding of the conflict, Mark Lawrence explores both combatant and civilian experiences in the centre-west Mexican state of Zacatecas and its borderlands. Lawrence shows that, despite the centrality of this key region, it has received little scholarly attention compared with other states, such as Jalisco or Michoacán, which saw similar levels of conflict.

Free Download Virginia Comolli, "Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1849044910, 1849046611 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati w’al Jihad, a.k.a. ‘Boko Haram’, and more recently, its splinter group ‘Ansaru’. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of regionalization, expanding their operations across West Africa and forging links with al-Qaeda affiliated groups. Boko Haram’s stated aim is to Islamize Africa’s most populous country but, like earlier Nigerian Islamist groups, of which there is a long tradition in the Sahel, the discontent prompting young Nigerians and other young West African Muslims to join the insurgency is rooted in more than just religious orthodoxy and cannot be disentangled from their economic, social and political marginalization.

Free Download Akali Omeni, "Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram"
English | ISBN: 1788311280 | 2019 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Free Download In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India By Jelle J.P. Wouters
2018 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0199093261 | PDF | 4 MB
In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state’s response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview, Jelle Wouters illustrates an ‘insurgency complex’ that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers’ perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-à-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.