books on insurgency.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Are there any good books on the topic of insurgency? For example, books which describe, in general terms, the tactics and effectiveness of movements like the Iraqi insurgency, the IRA groups during the 70's, Indian Maoists, etc? If anyone has any rec's along these lines it would be appreciated.

[socialistjustin]

Not a book, but this documentary called Meeting Resistance is an inside look of the Iraqi Insurgency. Pretty fucking good.

I also have a book called Why Do You Kill? by Jurgen Todenhofer. Never read it, but it's another inside look at the Iraqi Insurgency.

[Susurrus]

US Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Manual ought to be good reading.

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24fd.pdf

[Fopeos]

Che's 'Guerrilla warfare' and Carlos Marighella's 'Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla'

[x359594]

Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla by Abraham Guiellen. Guiellen got his military chops in the Spanish Civil War and then lived in exile in Mexico and various South American countries fomenting guerrilla resistance movements (he was the godfather of the Tupamaros.) His strategy differed from Che's inasmuch as he believed that guerrilla movements need to ally themselves with striking workers, consumer boycotts and other forms of popular protest by providing the muscle. His idea was that strikers, etc. work legally and in the open but with clandestine armed back up; the legal protesters would have no actual ties with the guerrillas so that they could remain legal.