Insurgents, Raiders, And Bandits - Plot & Excerpts
WAR “OUT OF THE DARK” 1. GUERRILLA is the Spanish word for “small war.” 2. The term COMMANDO, which enjoys widespread modern use, initially referred simply to a unit of mounted infantry of some 100 to 150 guerrilla fighters. 3. Caleb Carr, THE LESSONS OF TERROR (New York: Random House, 2001), 12. 4. “Guerrilla warfare,” “insurgency,” and “partisan operations” should all be thought of as synonyms. 5. See Loretta Napoleoni, INSURGENT IRAQ: AL ZARQAWI AND THE NEW GENERATION (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005). 6. Joint Staff, IRREGULAR WARFARE JOINT OPERATING CONCEPT (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense, 2007), 5. 7. James Kiras, “Irregular Warfare,” in UNDERSTANDING MODERN WARFARE (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 234. 8. The seminal article is by William Lind, K. Nightengale, J. Schmitt, J. Sutton, and G. Wilson, “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation,” MARINE CORPS GAZETTE, October 1989, 22–26. 9. See T. V. Paul, ASYMMETRIC CONFLICTS: WAR INITIATION BY WEAKER POWERS (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
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