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The Counterinsurgency Reading List
Abu Muqawama and Charlie put our heads together across the Atlantic Ocean and came up with this, the long-awaited Counterinsurgency Reading List. This list is not exhaustive, but the "essentials" and "intermediate" lists include all the books and articles the two of us think you should read. There's also some fiction and films -- and even a section on political Islam because while it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with COIN, it certainly has relevance to the operating environments in which some of our readership live and work. Click on the links, and they should -- with a few exceptions -- either take you to the article or to the link on amazon.com.
Wan to know what we think about specific books and articles? Check out our COIN Book Club entries, which review select offerings from this Reading List.
Counterinsurgency Reading List
October 2007
(updated November 2007)
(updated March 2008)
(updated May 2009)
The Bare Bones Essentials
David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
David Kilcullen, "28 Articles", Military Review, May-June 2006
Kalev Sepp, "Best Practices in COIN", Military Review, May-June 2005
Intermediate Reading
Colonial Era
Robert Bateman, "Lawrence and his Message"
C.E. Callwell, Small Wars
John Cann, Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War 1961-1974
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Bernard Fall, The Street without Joy
David Galula, Pacification in Algeria: 1956-1958
Tony Geraghty, The Irish War
Charles Gwynn, Imperial Policing
Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
Frank Kitson, Gangs and Counter-Gangs
Robert Komer, Bureaucracy Does its Thing
Andrew Krepinevich, The Army and Vietnam
John Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie
Robert Taber, War of the Flea
Robert Thompson, Defeating Communist Insurgency
Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare
Mao Tse-Tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Bing West, The Village
Modern Day
Ralph Baker, "The Decisive Weapon", Military Review, May-June 2006
David Barno, “Fighting ‘The Other War’: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2003-2005,” Military Review, September-October 2007
Stephen Biddle, “Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon,” Foreign Affairs, March-April 2006
Burgoyne & Marckwardt, The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa
Peter Chiarelli, "Winning the Peace", Military Review, July-August 2005
Nigel Alwyn Foster, "Changing the Army for COIN Operations", Military Review, November-December 2005
Les Grau, The Bear Went Over the Mountain
T.X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
T.X. Hammes, “Fourth Generation Evolves, Fifth Emerges,” Military Review, May-June 2007
Hecker & Rid, War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age
Chris Hickey, "Principles and Priorities for Training in Iraq", Military Review, March-April 2007
Frank Hoffman, "Hybrid Threats"
David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla
David Kilcullen, "Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt"
David Kilcullen, “Counterinsurgency Redux,” Survival, Winter, 2006
John Kizley, "Learning About Counterinsurgency", Military Review, March-April 2007
Sean MacFarland and Niel Smith, "Anbar Awakens," Military Review, March-April 2008
Marston & Malkasian, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare
H.R. McMaster, “On War: Lessons to be Learned.” Survival, February-March 2008
Steven Metz, Rethinking Insurgency
Elizabeth Rubin, "Battle Company Is Out There"
Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force
Various, FM 3-24, "Counterinsurgency"
Advanced Reading
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Robert Asprey, War in the Shadows
Robert Bates, Prosperity and Violence
Jarret M. Brachman and William F. McCants, "Stealing Al-Qaeda's Playbook," CTC Report, February 2006
Scott A. Cuomo and Brian J. Donlon, "Training a 'Hybrid' Warrior," Marine Corps Gazette
Loup Francart, Maitriser la violence
Robert M. Gates, "Beyond Guns and Steel: Reviving the Nonmilitary Instruments of American Power"
Antonio Giustozzi, Koran, Kalashnikov, and the Laptop: The Neo Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
John Bagot Glubb, War in the Desert
Daniel Helmer, "Flipside of the COIN: Israel’s Lebanese Incursion Between 1982-2000"
Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil Wars
Alan B. Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist
Mark Lichbach, The Rebel’s Dilemma
Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
James Scott, Moral Economy of the Peasant
Frederic M. Wehrey, “A Clash of Wills: Hizballah’s Psychological Campaign Against Israel in South Lebanon.”
Jeremy Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: Politics of Insurgent Violence
Fiction
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Jean Larteguy, The Centurions
Leon Uris, Trinity
Films
The Battle of Algiers
Go Tell The Spartans
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Process-related point: For
Process-related point:
For those works that are openly available on the internet (like Clausewitz), why not link to them, rather than to Amazon? Or do both?
IMHO, the most important
IMHO, the most important book on COIN is Deadly Paradigms by D.Michael Shafer. Shafer's basic premise is that all these various COIN strategies (good governance, economic development, etc) are nothing more than pipedreams if in constructing your COIN program, you fail to consider 1) the leverage we have over the host government (assuming one exists), 2) the host government's willingness and ability to execute the policies we want them to pursue, and 3) the relationship between the host government and the populace.
Shafer also raises an interesting consideration regarding previous COIN campaigns which are often claimed as victories - Phillipines, Greece, etc...in that it was actually external events, outside of the COIN plans, which were the decisive factors.
Breaking Morant about the
Breaking Morant about the Boer Wars in the early 1900s is also supposed to be a great film focused on COIN.
A suggestion from the
A suggestion from the off-topic fictional movies dept.: Brazil, by Terry Gilliam, from 1985.
Here is why it is noteworthy anyway. Being a whirling dystopia of an overly paranoid society fighting a terrorist threat, it is also often very funny and brilliantly absurd - Gilliam is ex Monty Python. So it might serve quite fine you readers who are seriously concerned about security every day in catching a diverting, yet enlightening look at the broader swamp of the WoT.
Remarkably, some of its darkest and yet most hilarious scenes turned actually true in the last couple of years, like the one in which a spelling error leads to the arrest and torture of an innocent guy; resembled by the Khaled Al-Masri case.
A movie everyone should
A movie everyone should watch about how anti-insurgency operations just creates more insurgents - Bloody Sunday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)
I second Lexington Greene's
I second Lexington Greene's comments about Centurions/Praetorians. I've been trying in vain to get my hands on a reasonably priced copy of both for years.
I think that The Insurgent
I think that The Insurgent Archipelago by John Mackinlay is worth adding to this list.
Here are some other books
Here are some other books worth considering; perhaps others have already pointed them out:
Andrew Birtle - two volumes on evolution of US COIN doctrine - published by CMH.
Graham Cosmas - two volume history of MACV command - published by CMH - volume 2 concerning Abrams tour is available online at the CMH website.
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I have just read "The Forever
I have just read "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins, and noticed it was not on your list. It is an excellent book and has great relevance to both the Afghanistan and Iraq theaters. More of the second half focuses on Iraq, but the beginning does look into Afghanistan both before and after 9/11.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/books/12book.html
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