Insurgencies

2006

2006-11-26-Hammes

The Way to Win a Guerrilla War
By T.X. Hammes
Washington Post, Outlook 2006-11-16

[A helpful and knowledgeable survey of writings about insurgencies.]

2007

2007-10-30-Price-Petraeus

Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus's Counterinsurgency Manual
by David Price
CounterPunch.org, 2007-10-30

* Core Chapter a Morass of "Borrowed" Quotes

* University of Chicago Press Badly Compromised

* Counterinsurgency Anthropologist Montgomery McFate's Role Under Attack

[That military manuals do not represent original research,
but rather contain a mismash of borrowings from other sources,
and that various subordinate and uncredited authors
may have contributed to the work
(a practice surely unknown in acadame),
is not exactly earth-shattering news,
at least not to this rather cynical product of Army ROTC
and two officer basic courses (Infantry and EW/Crypto).
But I am sure that there are some who are eager to bash the military
any way that they can.]