Beatrice Heuser

The Cultural Revolution in Counter-Insurgency

Michael C. Fowler, Amateur Soldiers, Global Wars: Insurgency and Modern Conflict.Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. Pp.183.

Western "Containment" Policies in the Cold War: The Yugoslav Case, 1948-1953

49.95/£28.99, HB. ISBN 0-275-98136-3. Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View on Counterinsurgency, first published in France as La Guerre Moderne (1961), trans. by Daniel Lee, foreword by Bernard Fall, introduction by Eliot Cohen. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp.95.

Small Wars in the Age of Clausewitz: The Watershed Between Partisan War and People's War

74.95/£41.95, HB. ISBN 0-275-99267-5. US

NSC 68 and the Soviet threat: a new perspective on Western threat perception and policy making

29.95/£16.95, PB. ISBN 0-275-99268-3. David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice first published 1964, foreword by John A. Nagl. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp.107.

Warsaw pact military doctrines in the 1970s and 1980s: Findings in the East German archives

74.95/£41.95, HB. ISBN 0-275-99269-1.

The Development of NATO's Nuclear Strategy

0.00/£0.00, PB ISBN 0-275-99303-5. Richard H. Shultz, Jr. and Andrea J. Dew, Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias – The Warriors of Contemporary Combat. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp.316.

Victory in a Nuclear War? A Comparison of NATO and WTO War Aims and Strategies

29.50/£19, HB. ISBN 0-231-12982-3. Robert M. Cassidy, Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp.211. US

Historical lessons and discourse on defence in France and Germany, 1945-90

49.95/£28.99, HB. ISBN 0-275-98990-9. US Army and US Marine Corps, Counterinsurgency FM 3-24, MCWP 3-33.5 of 15 December 2006. Pp.282 .

Keystone in the division of Europe: Germany in the Cold War

Containment, as conceived by the US government official George Kennan, was an aggressive attempt to cause the Soviet Cold War empire to disintegrate. This can is demonstrated by the case study of how the USA, Britain, and France tried to instrumentalise renegade Titos Yugoslavia as a wedge to break up the cohesion of the Communist regimes within the Soviet sphere. They supported Tito against subversion and planned Soviet-orchestrated military attack from its neighbouring states; Western plans for the support of Yugoslavia included plans for a selective use of nuclear weapons.

Britain and the Origins and Future of the European Defence and Security Mechanism

Abstract Around the time of Clausewitz’s writing, a new element was introduced into partisan warfare: ideology. Previously, under the ancien régime, partisans were what today we would call special forces, light infantry or cavalry, almost always mercenaries, carrying out special operations, while the main action in war took place between regular armies. Clausewitz lectured his students on such ‘small wars’. In the American War of Independence and the resistance against Napoleon and his allies, operations carried out by such partisans merged with counter-revolutionary, nationalist insurgencies, but these Clausewitz analysed in a distinct category, ‘peoples war’. Small wars, peoples war, etc. should thus not be thought of as monopoly of either the political Right or the Left.