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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (Third Edition)
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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (Third Edition) Paperback - 1996 - 3rd Edition

by Callwell, C. E

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  • Title Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (Third Edition)
  • Author Callwell, C. E
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 579
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, lincoln, ne
  • Date 1996-04-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 080326366X.G
  • ISBN 9780803263666 / 080326366X
  • Weight 1.73 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.52 x 1.44 in (19.71 x 14.02 x 3.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Tactics, Military history, Modern - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95025837
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.02

From the rear cover

Originally published in 1896, Small Wars is an ambitious attempt to analyze and draw lessons from Western experience in fighting campaigns of imperial conquest. For the historian, Small Wars remains a useful and vital analysis of irregular warfare experiences, ranging from Hoche's suppression of the Vendee revolt during the French Revolution to the British wars against semi-organized armies of Marathas and Sikhs in mid-nineteenth-century India to the Boer War of 1899-1902. The military specialist discovers in Callwell lessons applicable to what today is called "low-intensity conflict". His message is clear, and it is relevant to current debates about conflicts as diverse as those in Bosnia, Somalia, and Vietnam. Technological superiority is an important, but seldom critical, ingredient in the success of low-intensity operations. An ability to adapt to terrain and climate, to match the enemy in mobility and inventiveness, to collect intelligence, and above all the capacity to "seize what the enemy prizes most", will determine success or failure. This reprint adds historical dimensions to the growing literature on unconventional conflict.

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About the author

Douglas Porch is a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. His most recent book is The French Secret Services.