A Systematic, comprehensive, and straightforward book that analyze and compares insurgencies and terrorist movements. It covers activity that has since occurred in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, China Burma, Iraq, Sudan, the Philippines, Colombia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere and highlights the new tactics and weapons used by insurgent groups including al Qaida – and threatened. Author Bard E. O’Neill, the director of studies of insurgencies and revolution at the National War College, addresses insurgencies with respect to ultimate goals, strategies, organization, the role and means of acquiring popular support, causes and effects of disunity, types of external support, and government responses. To suppress terrorism, to undermine terrorism’s ideological support, and to win the war of ideas, a national security expert needs some of the better ideas found in this book. Thus the book is also an ideal textbook for soldiers, analysts, students, and scholars who seek a better understanding of contemporary conflicts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bard E. O'Neill
Bard O’Neill has a doctorate in international relations from Denver University. He is Professor of international affairs at the National War College, Washington, DC (USA), where he is also director of Middle East Studies and director of studies of insurgency and revolution. Also an adjunct associate professor at Catholic University, Washington, DC, he teaches graduate courses in the Department of Politics. A 1979 Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University, O’Neill has served as a consultant to various high-ranking officials in the Departments of State and Defense. As director of Middle East studies, he has led various study groups to meet with heads of state and cabinet members in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and other countries. O’Neill has written and edited several books and articles including The Energy Crisis and US Foreign Policy, Armed Struggle in Palestine, and Insurgency in the Modern World and “Israel†for The Defense Policies of Nations. He and his family live in Springfield, Virginia (USA).
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