Learning how to stage and suppress insurgencies

What is it about?

How authors and practitioners learnt from each other - from the American Revolution, the Vendee insurgency and French attempts to generate uprisings in Britain, to the Spanish Guerrilla and other insurgencies against Napoleonic France, to Polish insurgencies against their occupiers and French counterinsurgency in Algeria.

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Why is it important?

This illustrates an international flow of ideas, sometimes jointly with values (liberty, democracy, self-determination), sometimes detached from them, concerning both insurgencies (how to stage them and how to repress them).