Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries - Couverture souple

Rice, Edward E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520071956 ISBN 13 : 9780520071957

Editeur : University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the American Revolution, but concentrating on the Chinese Civil War, the Huk rebellion in the Philippines, the wars in Algeria and in Vietnam, and the repeated conflicts in Latin America. He explores the origin, organization, and motivation of wars of the third kind, their rural and popular nature, the conversion of guerrilla armies to regular armies, and conceptual approaches to counterinsurgency. Rice concludes with an analysis of the perils of these wars for the great powers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward E. Rice, for thirty-four years a Foreign Service officer, is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and author of Mao's Way (California, 1972), which won the Commonwealth Club gold medal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520071956
• ISBN 13: 9780520071957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
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