Clausewitz wrote both about commando actions or special ops and about insurgencies.

What is it about?

In the age of Clausewitz, war took on new forms: irregular warfare hitherto called "small war" and carried out by commandos (groups led by "a partisan") existed alongside and overlapped with various forms of anti-Napoleonic insurgencies ("people's war" in the words of Heinrich von Brandt and Clausewitz). Clausewitz wrote about both.

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Why is it important?

It is not true that Clausewitz's On War only concerns inter-state war. Book VI specifically deals with insurgencies, how to prepare them and how to stage them.