Insurgency's Third Wave: How Insurgent Innovation Is Changing Contemporary Warfare

by Steven Metz

Book Overview

This study approaches insurgency as a form of strategy, comprising of three waves: The first running from the 1920s -1990s and dominated by Maoist "people's war" and its variants, the second running from the 1990s to the present and characterized by reliance on terrorism, the merging of insurgency and crime and increased transnationalization. The third wave, currently in its early stages, is characterized by increased innovation by insurgents in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755633679
• ISBN13: 9780755633678
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"