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Title: Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents Since 1750 (Warfare and History) by Ian F. W. Beckett ISBN: 0-415-23934-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Questionable Credibility
Comment: The author writes an very interesting book, sometimes it races along and at other times it becomes tedious. The author also offers many quotes and what appears to be tons of background, supportive and historical evidence to support his claims; Yet the author gives absolutely no footnotes or endnotes that one might validate or verify his sources. I was able to correctly identify many of his sources, but an over reliance on one's memory is not a useful academic tool. If one is seeking a credible research source, I can not honestly recommend this book, strictly on the basis that an indiviudal can not substantiate primary and or secondary sources as the author has used them.
The author does offer a substantial recommended reading list at the end of each chapter, but does not provide the standard alphabetically listed bibliography. Its tedious to search the reading list because of the way he has structured it.
The chapters are well organized and flow well through history from approximately the 1750's to roughly 2000. Although the book would benefit the novice as a "starter" in terms of the amount of historical information that the author provides; the scholar or researcher will not be able to validate or verify the veracity of the Authors quotes, examples or dates.
All in All I would rate this book 3 stars for its readability. I would rate it 4 stars for its contribution to the debate on modern insurgency/counter-insurgency and I will rate it at zero stars for its usefulness to research, simply because it has no endnotes or footnotes. In comparison with other books I would suggest that Robert B Asprey's updated Volume I, War in the Shadow's, long considered the academic baseline on the guerrilla in history is far superior.
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Title: Insurgency & Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare by Bard E. O'Neill ISBN: 1574883356 Publisher: Brassey's Inc Pub. Date: 21 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare by I. F. W. Beckett, Ian F. W. Beckett ISBN: 0816046018 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: On Guerrilla Warfare by Zedong Mao, Tse-Tung Mao ISBN: 0252068920 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Small Wars Manual United States Marine Corps Nineteen-Forty by Ronald Schaffer ISBN: 0897451120 Publisher: Sunflower University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Counter-Insurgency Manual: Tactics of the Anti-Guerrilla Professionals by Leroy Thompson ISBN: 1853675024 Publisher: Greenhill Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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