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July 2021, Volume 32, Issue 4-5
- 812-836 Bringing politics back in: interpretations of the peace process and the security challenge in Northern Ireland
by Paul Dixon - 837-844 Afterword
by Caroline Kennedy-Pipe - 845-850 Remaking the Modern World 1900-2015: global connections and comparisons
by Paul B. Rich - 851-854 Syrian Requiem: the civil war and its aftermath
by Fouad Mami
April 2021, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 415-440 Whose hybrid warfare? How ‘the hybrid warfare’ concept shapes Russian discourse, military, and political practice
by Maxim A. Suchkov - 441-468 Geographies of hybrid war: rebellion and foreign intervention in Ukraine
by Valery Dzutsati - 469-489 Reconstructing the theater of terror
by Matthew M. Sweeney & Arie Perliger & Ami Pedahzur - 490-508 Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias
by Antonio De Lauri & Astri Suhrke - 509-534 Settle and conquer: the ultimate counterinsurgency success
by Matthew J. Flynn - 535-549 Academic questions on jihadist sources, analysis, and networks: a rejoinder to will Reno on Unmasking Boko Haram
by Jacob Zenn - 550-570 Review of the special issue ‘robotics autonomous systems and warfare,’ Small Wars and Insurgencies 31, 4 June 2020
by Paul Lushenko - 571-573 The Russian understanding of war: blurring the lines between war and peace
by Craig Whiteside - 574-578 Stalin’s Guerillas in World War II
by Alexander Gogun - 578-580 Barbed-wire imperialism: Britain’s empire of camps, 1876-1903
by Paul B. Rich - 580-585 The US volunteers in the Southern Philippines: counterinsurgency, pacification, and collaboration, 1899-1901
by Oliver Charbonneau
February 2021, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 181-204 Gray zone in red: China revisits the past
by Thomas A. Marks & David H. Ucko - 205-228 Playing chess with the Dragon: Chinese-U.S. competition in the era of irregular warfare
by Cary Mittelmark - 229-265 Springing the ‘Tacitus Trap’: countering Chinese state-sponsored disinformation
by Jesse S. Curtis - 266-294 Irregular warfare in translation: past U.S. and Chinese excursions through the looking class
by Edward C. O’Dowd - 295-319 The concept of ‘hybrid warfare’ undermines NATO’s strategic thinking: insights from interviews with NATO officials
by Murat Caliskan & Michel Liégeois - 320-343 Lost in transition: the myth of Mao and the origins of COIN
by Emanuele Castelli & Simone Dossi & Lorenzo Zambernardi - 344-373 ‘Ground Hog Da Din’ for the Sikh insurgency?
by C. Christine Fair & Kerry Ashkenaze & Scott Batchelder - 374-408 Bringing the war home: the strategic logic of ‘North Caucasian terrorism’ in Russia
by Vassily A. Klimentov - 409-412 A British profession of arms: the politics of command in the late Victorian army
by Thomas-Durell Young - 412-414 Directorate S: the CIA and America’s secrete wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by S. Yaqub Ibrahimi
January 2021, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-25 New societies, new soldiers? A soldier typology
by Iselin Silja Kaspersen - 26-52 Civilians’ survival strategies during the Taliban’s insurgency (2007-9), Pakistan: a look at the consequences
by Sanaullah - 53-79 Counterinsurgency in South Africa: the Afrikaner Rebellion, 1914–1915
by Antonio Garcia & Evert Kleynhans - 80-102 ‘The elite troops of trafficking’. An assessment of the phenomenon of military-trained gang members in Rio de Janeiro
by Andrea Varsori - 103-126 The counter-insurgent paradox. How the FARC-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia
by José Antonio Gutiérrez - 127-151 The M-19’s ideological Sancocho: the reconciliation of socialism and Colombian nationalism
by Francis O’Connor & Jakob Meer - 152-162 The Venezuelan castro-communist counterinsurgency (1960-1968) and the fight for emergent democratic governments
by Daniel Levinson Harris - 163-172 Conflict in the South African transition: an analysis shaped by subaltern studies
by Paul B Rich - 173-176 Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global Jihad in Nigeria
by Will Reno - 177-180 Cities at war global insecurity and urban resistance
by Namrata Goswami
November 2020, Volume 31, Issue 7-8
- () Notice of duplicate publication: Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman
by The Editors - () Notice of duplicate publication: What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection
by The Editors - () Notice of duplicate publication: An analysis of the Jewish-Roman War (66–73 AD) using contemporary insurgency theory
by The Editors - 1395-1414 Negotiating statehood through ceasefires: Syria’s de-escalation zones
by Marika Sosnowski - 1415-1440 Private military & security companies, conflict complexity, and peace duration: an empirical analysis
by Elizabeth Radziszewski & Seden Akcinaroglu - 1441-1447 Maoism: a global history
by Thomas A. Marks - 1448-1452 Insurgency and counterinsurgency: a global history
by Paul B. Rich - 1453-1455 Guerrilla Nightmare: Luftwaffe Stukas at War Against Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
by Timothy Heck
August 2020, Volume 31, Issue 6
- 1143-1173 Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
by Niels Terpstra - 1174-1195 Jihadi governance and traditional authority structures: al-Shabaab and Clan Elders in Southern Somalia, 2008-2012
by Michael Weddegjerde Skjelderup - 1196-1241 The language of terror: exploring speech acts in official English-language ISIS videos, 2014-2017
by Yuanbo Qi - 1242-1294 Chronicling the Boko Haram Decade in Nigeria (2010-2020): distinguishing factions through videographic analysis
by Jacob Zenn - 1295-1322 Environmental degradation, livelihood, and the stability of Chad Basin Region
by Saheed Babajide Owonikoko & Jude A. Momodu - 1323-1348 The conceptual puzzle of violent non-state actors in Latin America: a critique of the convergence hypothesis
by Jochen Kleinschmidt & Oscar Palma - 1349-1372 Between safe havens in cross-border insurgency: Malaysia, Thailand and the Second Emergency (1952–89)
by Weichong Ong - 1373-1394 The Assam Rifles and India’s North-East frontier policy
by Harrison Akins
July 2020, Volume 31, Issue 5
- 931-955 Introduction
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 956-987 Trajectories to rebellion: the Former Han dynasty
by Ralph D. Sawyer - 988-1009 The Ulcer of the Mughal Empire: Mughals and Marathas, 1680-1707
by Eric W. Osborne - 1010-1043 Insurgency in Germany: the slaughter of Varus in the Teutoburger Wald
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 1044-1057 Armed resistance to Roman rule in North Africa, from the time of Augustus to the vandal invasion
by David Cherry - 1058-1079 An analysis of the Jewish-Roman War (66–73 AD) using contemporary insurgency theory
by Javier Jordán - 1080-1107 ‘I will lay waste your cities, and you will become a desolation’. Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Judaea
by Gwyn Davies - 1108-1129 ‘On the side of a righteous vengeance’ – Counterinsurgency operations in Roman Britain
by Jorit Wintjes - 1130-1136 Biographies of two ‘big men’ in Zimbabwe: a review essay
by Norma Kriger - 1137-1138 The Dragons and the Snakes: how the rest learned to fight the West
by Stephen Chan - 1139-1142 Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana
by James O. Gump
June 2020, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 691-700 The impact of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) across the conflict spectrum
by Ash Rossiter - 701-729 Reluctant innovators? Inter-organizational conflict and the U.S.A.’s route to becoming a drone power
by Marc R. DeVore - 730-750 Armed, unmanned, and in high demand: the drivers behind combat drones proliferation in the Middle East
by Francesco F. Milan & Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi - 751-772 U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan’s Pashtun ‘tribal’ region: beginning of the end under President Trump?
by Farooq Yousaf - 773-800 What’s in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia’s Federal Government
by Brendon J. Cannon - 801-821 What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection
by Andree-Anne Melancon - 822-850 Friend or frenemy? The role of trust in human-machine teaming and lethal autonomous weapons systems
by Aiden Warren & Alek Hillas - 851-873 Bots on the ground: an impending UGV revolution in military affairs?
by Ash Rossiter - 874-897 Artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous systems along the belt and road: towards private security companies with Chinese characteristics?
by Peter Layton - 898-917 The impact of Artificial Intelligence on hybrid warfare
by Guilong Yan - 918-929 Tribes and politics in Yemen: a history of the Houthi Conflict
by Maria-Louise Clausen - 920-923 Blood and Concrete: 21st century conflict in urban centers and megacities
by Alice Hills - 923-926 To build as well as destroy: American nation building in Vietnam
by Christian Tripodi - 926-929 Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74: between pragmatism and human rights
by Marina Eleftheriadou
April 2020, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 445-474 Rebel fragmentation in Syria’s civil war
by Olivier J. Walther & Patrick Steen Pedersen - 475-510 War in Syria: the translocal dimension of fighter mobilization
by Esther Meininghaus & Carina Schlüsing - 511-539 Liberated, not free: Yazidi women after Islamic State captivity
by Gina Vale - 540-568 Towards the “olive trees of Rome”: exploitation of propaganda devices in the Islamic State’s flagship magazine “Rumiyah”
by Miron Lakomy - 569-593 Israeli targeted killing operations before and during the Second Intifada: a contextualized comparison
by Oldrich Bures & Andrew J. Hawkins - 594-611 The bombing of The King David Hotel, July 1946
by Bruce Hoffman - 612-638 Improving US army civil affairs assessment through social power analysis
by Lucy A. Whalley & Judith M. Vendrzyk - 639-660 Political bargaining chips: republican internees in Northern Ireland 1972-1975
by Tony Craig & Martin McCleery - 661-669 Researching armed conflict, Boko Haram and other violent non-state actors: problems with web sources
by M. J. Fox - 670-679 Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman
by Mitja Sardoc - 680-689 Radical Islamist ideology, Jihadist recruitment and the contradictions of western counter-terrorism
by Paul B. Rich
February 2020, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 211-218 Considering anthropology and small wars
by Montgomery McFate - 219-240 Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experiment
by Craig Whiteside & Anas Elallame - 241-266 Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units
by Nehemia Stern & Uzi Ben Shalom - 267-285 Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966
by Jason S. Ridler - 286-312 Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary war
by Paul B. Rich - 313-339 Archaeology and small wars
by Christopher Jasparro - 340-358 Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Paula Holmes-Eber - 359-380 The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project
by Mohamed Haji Ingiriis - 381-401 Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgency
by Heather S. Gregg - 402-419 Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to Iraq
by Kjetil Enstad - 420-444 ‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant
by David B. Edwards
January 2020, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-33 The battle of Aleppo: external patrons and the victimization of civilians in civil war
by Keith A. Grant & Bernd Kaussler - 34-60 Fight after flight? An exploration of the radicalization potential among refugees in Greece
by Marina Eleftheriadou - 61-86 Taking to the streets: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the urbanization of insurgency
by Rebecca Lucas - 87-105 War on the Hoof: regional security in Africa and livestock conflicts
by Lawrence E. Cline - 106-130 Small groups of investors and their private armies: the ascendance of private equity firms and their control over private military companies as further evidence of epochal change theory
by Bryan T. Stinchfield - 131-158 Security sector corruption and military effectiveness: the influence of corruption on countermeasures against Boko Haram in Nigeria
by Daniel Kofi Banini - 159-180 The ‘strategy bridge’ as the forgotten dimension of effective COIN: the case of Peru and Sendero
by Marina Miron - 181-203 Ee-imagining Colombia’s new security landscape in the wake of the FARC Peace Accord
by James Rochlin - 204-208 Horn, Sahel and Rift: Faultlines, of the African Jihad
by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos - 209-210 Mexico’s illicit drug networks and the state reaction
by Layne Dittmann
November 2019, Volume 30, Issue 6-7
- 1077-1088 Gender, insurgency, and terrorism: introduction to the special issue
by Srobana Bhattacharya - 1089-1116 Understanding women at war: a mixed-methods exploration of leadership in non-state armed groups
by Alexis Henshaw & June Eric-Udorie & Hannah Godefa & Kathryn Howley & Cat Jeon & Elise Sweezy & Katheryn Zhao - 1117-1150 The ballot or the bomb belt: the roots of female suicide terrorism before and after 9/11
by Nakissa P. Jahanbani & Charmaine N. Willis - 1151-1168 Nigerian women and the trends of kidnapping in the era of Boko Haram insurgency: patterns and evolution
by James Okolie-Osemene & Rosemary I. Okolie-Osemene - 1169-1192 Worth many sins: Al-Shabaab’s shifting relationship with Kenyan women
by Katharine Petrich & Phoebe Donnelly - 1193-1213 Radicalizing female empowerment: gender, agency, and affective appeals in Islamic State propaganda
by Bidisha Biswas & Shirin Deylami - 1214-1232 Boko Haram insurgency and gendered victimhood: women as corporal victims and objects of war
by Al Chukwuma Okoli & Stephen Nnaemeka Azom - 1233-1263 The ligaments of counter-terrorism regime: sexual violence and the vicarious traumatisation of female non-governmental organisation workers: evidence from Nigeria
by Emeka Thaddues Njoku - 1264-1273 Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present
by Paul B. Rich - 1274-1275 Mexico’s illicit drug networks and the state reaction
by Layne Dittmann - 1275-1278 Dirty war: Rhodesia and chemical biological warfare: 1975–1980
by J. R. T. Wood
July 2019, Volume 30, Issue 4-5
- 719-733 Why a nineteenth-century study?
by Mark Lawrence - 734-749 The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten, disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762
by Charles Esdaile - 750-774 Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors
by Yingcong Dai - 775-796 Regular and irregular forces in conflict: nineteenth century insurgencies in South America
by Alejandro M. Rabinovich & Natalia Sobrevilla Perea - 797-817 The First Carlist War (1833–40), insurgency, Ramón Cabrera, and expeditionary warfare
by Mark Lawrence - 818-840 Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War
by Susan-Mary Grant - 841-871 Memory, magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars, from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920)
by Nathaniel Morris - 872-894 Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression
by Giacomo Macola & Jack Hogan - 895-912 Ireland: rebellion and counter-insurgency, 1848–1867
by Timothy Bowman - 913-936 ‘The extraordinary successes which the Russians have achieved’ - the Conquest of Central Asia in Callwell’s Small Wars
by Alexander Morrison - 937-967 General Zuo’s counter-insurgency doctrine
by Kenneth M. Swope - 968-993 A predisposition to brutality? German practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate
by Bastian Matteo Scianna - 994-1019 The campaign of the lost footsteps: the pacification of Burma, 1885-95
by Ian F. W. Beckett - 1020-1039 The Force Publique’s campaigns in the Congo-Arab War, 1892-1894
by Mario Draper - 1040-1069 Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa
by Richard Reid - 1070-1076 Max Hastings and the Vietnam war
by Paul B. Rich
April 2019, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 489-517 Transforming Mexico’s energy field: the intended consequences of a drug war
by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera - 518-542 Organized insurgency, lethality, and target selection: Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah
by Nori Katagiri - 543-562 Territoriality of radical Islam: comparative analysis of jihadist groups' approach to territory
by Bohumil Doboš & Martin Riegl & Stig Jarle Hansen - 563-586 The impact of Islamic State’s ideological correction initiative on al Qaeda’s bid for relevance
by John Turner - 587-614 Playing dirty to survive: the vulnerability of civilian targets within U.S. military aid recipient states
by Amira Jadoon - 615-640 British operations among the people and civilian risk
by Cornelius Friesendorf - 641-659 Reassessing private military and security company (PMSC) ‘competition‘ in civil war: lessons from Sierra Leone
by Christopher M. Faulkner & Joshua E. Lambert & Jonathan M. Powell - 660-678 From small wars to counterinsurgency: C.W. Gwynn, ‘Imperial Policing’ and transformation of doctrine
by Stanislav Malkin - 679-702 Why did Sudan Lose a small war in Southern Sudan?
by Majak D’Agoôt - 703-718 The U.S. Army in the Iraq War: volume 1 (Invasion, Insurgency, Civil War 2003-2006)
by Thomas A. Marks & Michael S. Bell - 709-716 Military anthropology: soldiers, scholars and subjects at the margins of empire
by Paul B Rich - 716-718 Apartheid, guns and money: a tale of profit
by Tom Lodge
February 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 265-278 ISIS-K: deadly nuisance or strategic threat?
by Paul Lushenko & Lance Van Auken & Garrett Stebbins - 279-306 How they joined? Militants and informers in the armed conflict in Donbas
by Serhiy Kudelia - 307-334 Behind the enemy line: British-led guerrilla operations in the Indo-Burma frontier during the Second World War
by Pum Khan Pau - 335-366 Ignore culture in counterinsurgency at your own peril: Rhodesian propaganda warfare during the Zimbabwe war of liberation in Chilonga, Chiredzi South-East of Zimbabwe
by Enock Ndawana & Amos Zevure - 367-391 The Zimbabwe people’s revolutionary army military operations in Makonde District and the attack on Salisbury’s fuel storage tanks, 1965-1979
by Takawira Chatambudza & Mediel Hove - 392-420 How do sources of traditional legitimacy constrain popular uprisings? The case of the Kingdom of Swaziland
by Fenja Søndergaard Møller - 421-446 The revisionist historiography of Britain’s decolonisation conflicts and political science theses of civilian victimisation in counterinsurgency
by Fausto Scarinzi - 447-478 Colonial violence and its ‘Small Wars’: fighting the Kuki ‘guerillas’ during the Great War in Northeast India, 1917–1919
by Jangkhomang Guite - 479-481 Political violence in ancient India
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 479-486 Political violence in ancient India
by Rose Mary Sheldon - 482-484 Russian hybrid warfare: resurgence and politicisation
by Scott Jasper - 484-486 Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
by Mark McLay - 487-488 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
January 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-13 Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience in irregular conflict
by Thomas A. Marks & Kirklin J. Bateman - 14-30 The Mexican War: frontier expansion and selective incursion
by Craig A. Deare - 31-61 Birth of the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece
by Andrew Novo - 62-80 Organizing for the ‘gray zone’ fight: early Cold War realities and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations
by David P. Oakley - 81-100 Counterinsurgency in Vietnam – schizophrenia until too late
by Rufus Phillips - 101-139 Turning gangsters into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan
by Matthew P. Dearing - 140-175 Iraq, 2003–2011: succeeding to fail
by Jeanne Godfroy & Liam Collins - 176-199 The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger
by LTC Joseph Guido - 200-222 Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT
by Steve Miska & Samuel Romano - 223-254 Systems failure: the US way of irregular warfare
by David H. Ucko - 255-262 The last great historian: Walter Laqueur and political violence
by Christopher Wall - 263-264 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
November 2018, Volume 29, Issue 5-6
- 839-862 The multidimensional nature of the Boko Haram conflict
by James J. Hentz - 863-885 ‘The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist’:Boko Haram and de-radicalization around Lake Chad
by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos - 886-915 Boko Haram’s increasingly sophisticated military threat
by Akali Omeni - 916-940 End of the cycle: assessing ETA’s strategies of terrorism
by Charles W. Mahoney - 941-963 Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities
by Aleksander Zdravkovski - 964-980 Expeditionary police advising: some causes of failure
by Donald Stoker & Edward B. Westermann - 981-1005 The effect of foreign state support to UNITA during the Angolan War (1975–1991)
by Quint Hoekstra - 1006-1039 The myth of Afghan electoral democracy: the irregularities of the 2014 presidential election
by Thomas H. Johnson - 1040-1064 Explaining the impact of militancy on Iran–Pakistan relations
by Saira Basit - 1065-1078 Are Mao Zedong and Maoist thought irrelevant in the understanding of insurgencies?
by Paul B Rich - 1079-1080 Notes on contributors
by The Editors
July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 607-628 The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict
by Daniel Bultmann - 629-653 The FARC’s militaristic blueprint
by Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín - 654-679 Unity is the exception. Alliance formation and de-formation among armed actors in Northern Mali
by Nicolas Desgrais & Yvan Guichaoua & Andrew Lebovich - 680-708 Bourdieu’s capital and insurgent group resilience:a field-theoretic approach to the polisario front
by Claire M. Metelits - 709-734 Forces of heresy versus forces of conservation: making sense of Hezb-e Islami-ye Afghanistan’s and the Taleban’s positions in the Afghan insurgency
by Philipp Münch - 735-753 The structural origins of social cohesion: the dynamics of micro-solidarity in 1991–1995 Wars of Yugoslav Succession
by Siniša Malešević - 754-775 Network structure of insurgent groups and the success of DDR processes in Colombia
by Ernesto Cardenas & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Luis Carlos Guevara - 776-800 The MODEL social structure of an armed group: from Liberian refugees to heroes of Côte d’Ivoire and liberators of the homeland
by Ilmari Käihkö - 801-826 Insurgent courts in civil wars: the three pathways of (trans)formation in today’s Syria (2012–2017)
by Regine Schwab - 827-834 Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States and 1950s Southern Vietnam
by Paul B. Rich - 830-834 Taliban narratives: the use of stories in the Afghanistan conflict
by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza - 835-837 Notes on Contributors
by The Editors
May 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 379-390 Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa
by Abel Polese & Ruth Hanau Santini - 391-413 From Westphalian Failure to Heterarchic Governance in MENA: The Case of Syria
by Raymond Hinnebusch - 414-433 ‘What is in a Name?’: The Role of (Different) Identities in the Multiple Proxy Wars in Syria
by Christopher Phillips & Morten Valbjørn