Contents

Editor’s Note

1.  Island in Revolt: Britain’s War against EOKA during the Cyprus Emergency, 1955–59

Aaron Edwards

2.  Searching for a Solution to a Conundrum: Indian Counterinsurgency since 1956

Simon Robbins

3.  Model Campaigns of Futility: The Portuguese in Africa, 1961–74

Simon Robbins

4.  The Model Counterinsurgency: Dhofar, 1962–75

James Worrall

5.  “Confrontation”: Countering Indonesian Insurgency, 1963–66

Paul Rosentall

6.  The British in South Arabia, 1963–67: A Tale of Two Insurgencies

Aaron Edwards

7.  The Vietnam War: The Spectrum of Conflict, 1954–75

Daniel Marston

8.  “One-Sided COIN”: A Politico-Military Study of the Rhodesian Bush War, 1966–80

Edmund Yorke

9.  Northern Ireland’s “Troubles,” 1969–98: Principles versus Practice in Counterinsurgency?

Aaron Edwards

10.  Battling the Mujahideen: Soviet Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 1979–89

Gregory Fremont-Barnes

11.  Counterinsurgency in Turkey: Confronting Kurdish Separatism and the PKK since 1984

Roger Chapman

12.  Russian Counterinsurgency in Chechnya, 1994–96

Peter J. Rainow

13.  Culture and Complexity: Counterinsurgency in Iraq, 2003–11

William A. Taylor

14.  Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Counterinsurgency?

Duncan Anderson

15.  The Future of Counterinsurgency?: The Crisis of Classical Theories

Paul Dixon

Guide to Further Reading

About the Editor and Contributors

Index