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Title: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Subtitle: A Global History

Author: Jeremy Black

Narrator: Doug Greene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. His sweeping study will be essential material for all students of military history.

The book is published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Critic Reviews:

"A masterful survey from the Roman Empire to present-day Syria." (Kaushik Roy, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway)

"Jeremy Black does it again in this comprehensively researched, clearly presented analysis of insurgency and counterinsurgency in a global historical context. A major resource for courses and individual readers alike." (Dennis Showalter, Colorado College)

Members Reviews:

Disappointing survey with few insights

If you seek a comprehensive laundry list of insurgencies from the pre-modern through the modern, this is your book. But if you are looking for deep insight and analysis into counterinsurgency strategy and tactics, don't expect much here. The main theme of the book is sound: that insurgencies succeed and fail for a variety of factors (political will, ideology, terrain, armaments, tactics, foreign support, etc.) and that over-reliance on rigid counterinsurgency doctrine or broad generalizations based on a skewed historical sample of insurgencies can lead one astray. The author points out that many celebrated authors on counterinsurgency strategy base their conclusions on a self-serving and overly limited selection of events. Historical examples can be found to undermine every known rule about counterinsurgency practice. Another shortcoming of this book, in my view, is that it jumps relentlessly from one insurgency to another, leaping across centuries and continents, with dizzying effect. While the author makes a brave attempt at organization, the narrative seems scattered and disjointed for want of connective thought and analysis. The phrase that comes up most often in the author's limited attempts at analysis is "remains unclear." I also found the writing wordy, vague and repetitive, lacking the color or wit that would enliven these dry summaries of long-ago revolts and rebellions in little-known places.