"There is another type of war, new in its
intensity, ancient in its origins - war by guerrillas, subversives,
insurgents, assassins; war by ambush instead of combat; by infiltration
instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the
enemy instead of engaging him. It requires - in those situations
where we must encounter it - a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly
different king of force, and therefore, a new and wholly different kind
of military training."
President John F. Kennedy, Speech at 1961 West Point
Graduation
Counterinsurgency Documents. Small Wars Journal.
Extensive links to military and non-military documents, reports,
references, and field manuals on counterinsurgency.
Reports, Publications and Resources about Counterinsurgency
Amend, Kurt. Counterinsurgency Principles for the
Diplomat. Accessed
here at Small Wars Journal.
Coste, Colonel Philippe. Doctrine for
Counterinsurgency at the Tactical Level. Armee de
Terre, Forces Employment Doctrine Center, Paris, France. April 2010.
Found
here at Small Wars Journal.
Fall, Bernard B. Last Reflections On a War.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
Galua, David. Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.
New York: Praeger,
1964. A French military officer helps to define the laws of
counterinsurgency warfare and outline strategy and tactics. The book
is available on Amazon.com at
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.
Hammes, Thomas X. The Sling and the Stone: On War
in the 21st Century. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press,
2004.
Krepinevich, Andrew F. The Army and Vietnam.
Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935.
Lawrence, T.E. "The Evolution of a Revolt." Army
Quarterly and Defense Journal, October 1920. Reprinted atFort
Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1989. (Adobe Acrobat file
- 3 MBs - click
here.)
Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and
Unholy Terror. New York: Modern Library, 2003.
Linn, Brian M. The Philippine War, 1899-1902.
Lawrence: Univeristy Press of Kansas, 2000.
McCuen, Jack. The Art of Counter-Revolutionary Warfare.1966.
Nagl, John A. Counterinsurgency Lessons From
Malaysia and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
O'Neil, Bard E. Insurgency & Terrorism: From
Revolution to Acopcalyspe. Washington, D.C.: Potomac
Books, 2005.
Thompson, Sir Robert. Defeating Communist
Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam.
Studies in International Security: 10, Praeger Publishers, NY: 1966.
Tse-Tung, Mao. On Guerrilla Warfare.
The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America. Baltimore,
MD: 1992.
West, Bing. The Village. New
York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 2003. Military advisors relate their
experiences of being embedded with Vietnamese units.
The Battle of Algiers. 1966. The movie portrays the
violent struggle in the late 1950s for Algerian independence from
France. It has a documentary style and portrays members of the
Algerian Liberation Front (F.L.N.) fighting for independence and French
forces engaged in counter-insurgency. The movie can be bought at
amazon.com here.
The Battle of Algiers.
