Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice, 15001850
In early modern times, warfare in Europe took on many diverse and overlapping forms. Our modern notions of regular and irregular warfare, of major war and small war, have their roots in much greater diversity than such binary notions allow for. While insurgencies go back to time immemorial, they have become conceptually fused with small wars. This is a term first used to denote special operations, often carried out by military companies formed from special ethnic groups and then recruited into larger armies. In its Spanish form, guerrilla, the term small war came to stand for an ideologically-motivated insurgency against the state authorities or occupying forces of another power.
There is much overlap between the phenomena of irregular warfare in the sense of special operations alongside regular operations, and irregular warfare of insurgents against the regular forces of a state. This book demonstrates how long the two phenomena were in flux and fed on each other, from the raiding operations of the sixteenth century to the small wars or special operations conducted by special units in the nineteenth century, which existed alongside and could merge with a popular insurgency.
This book is based on a special issue of the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Beatrice Heuser holds the chair in International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. Her research focuses on strategy, European security, transatlantic relations, Britain, France, USA, Germany, and defence policy making. She has published on nuclear strategy, Clausewitz, and the evolution of strategy since Antiquity.
Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice, 15001850
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Contents
Alastair Massie
Beatrice Heuser
Benjamin Deruelle
Bertrand Fonck and George Satterfield
Sylvie Kleinman
Alan Forrest
Charles Esdaile
Martin Rink
Mark Lawrence
Beatrice Heuser
Beatrice Heuser
Beatrice Heuser
The following chapters were originally published in Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
The Origins of Small Wars from Special Operations to Ideological Insurgencies: A National Army Museum response
Alastair Massie
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 738740
Exploring the jungle of terminology
Beatrice Heuser
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 741753
The sixteenth-century antecedents of special operations small war
Benjamin Deruelle
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 754766
The essence of war: French armies and small war in the Low Countries (16721697)
Bertrand Fonck and George Satterfield
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 767783
Initiating insurgencies abroad: French plans to chouannise Britain and Ireland, 17931798
Sylvie Kleinman
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 784799
The insurgency of the Vende
Alan Forrest
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 800813
Guerrillas and bandits in the Serrana de Ronda, 18101812
Charles Esdaile
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 814827
The German wars of liberation 18071815: The restrained insurgency
Martin Rink
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 828842
Poachers turned gamekeepers: A study of the guerrilla phenomenon in Spain, 18081840
Mark Lawrence
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 843857
Lessons learnt? Cultural transfer and revolutionary wars, 17751831
Beatrice Heuser
Small Wars & Insurgencies, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2014) pp. 858876
The following chapter was originally published in The Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 33, issue 1 (February 2010). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Small Wars in the Age of Clausewitz: The Watershed Between Partisan War and Peoples War
Beatrice Heuser
The Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 33, issue 1 (February 2010) pp. 139162
The following chapter was originally published in Civil Wars, volume 14, issue 1 (March 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Atrocities in Theory and Practice: An Introduction
Beatrice Heuser
Civil Wars, volume 14, issue 1 (March 2012) pp. 228
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Benjamin Deruelle is a lecturer, and a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Historique du Septentrion (IRHiS), at the University of Lille, France. He works on culture, representations, and practices of war in the first French modernity. He is about to publish his thesis, Of Paper, Iron and Blood: Knights and Knighthood confronted with the Sixteenth Century (ca. 1460 ca. 1620), with Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, France. He is also the author of articles on the question of the revival of the chivalric ideal and its political, military, and social issues.
Charles Esdaile holds a personal chair in the Department of History at the University of Liverpool, UK. Britains leading expert on the Peninsular War of 18081814, he is the author of numerous books on the Napoleonic period, including
