Colonial Wars, Post-Colonial States: A Debate on the War on Terror

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David Kilcullen. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One . London: Hurst and Company, 2009. 346 pp. ISBN 978-1-85065-955-6.

Douglas Porch. Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 434 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-69984-7.

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Cecil, N. (2014) War on Islamist fanatics will last a generation, David Cameron tells troops in Afghanistan. The Evening Standard , 3 October.
Chandrasekaran, R. (2007) Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone . London: Bloomsbury.
Clausewitz, C. V. (1976) On War . Edited and translated by Howard, M. and Paret, P. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Department of the Army (2006) Field Manual, 3-24 COIN . Washington: Headquarters of the Army.
The Economist (2014) The black flag in Africa. 24 January.
Edelstein, D. M. (2004) Occupational hazards: Why military occupations succeed or fail. International Security . 29 (1), 44–91.
Elkins, C. (2005) Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya . London: Pimlico.
Hoffman, F. (2014) The great revamp: 11 trends shaping the future of conflict. War on the Rocks. Available at: warontherocks.com (accessed 25 February 2015).
House of Commons Defence Committee (2015) The Situation in Iraq and Syria and the Response to al Dawla al-Islamiya fi Al-Iraq al-Sham (DAESH) , HC 690. London: The Stationary Office.
Iron, I. (2013) Basra 2008: Operation charge of the knights. In Bailey, J., Iron, R., and Strachan, H. (eds) British Generals in Blair's Wars . Farnham: Ashgate.
Jones, S. and Johnston, P. (2013) The future of insurgency. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism . 36 (1), 1–25.
Jones, D. M. and Smith, M. L. R. (2010) Grammar but no logic: Technique is not enough – A response to Nagl and Burton. Journal of Strategic Studies . 33 (3), 433–46.
Kaufmann, C. (1999) Intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars. In Art R. J. and Waltz, K. N. (eds) The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 385–405.
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Metz, S. (1994) Insurgency after the cold war. Small Wars and Insurgencies . 5, 63–82.
Moniboit, G. (2012) Deny British empires crimes? No, we ignore them. The Guardian , 23 April. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities (accessed 29 June 2015).
Newsinger, J. (1995) From counter-insurgency to internal security: Northern Ireland 1969–1992. Small Wars and Insurgencies . 6 (1), 88–111.
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Sayyid, S. (2003) A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism . 2nd ed. London: Zed Books.
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Waterston, A. (ed.) (2008) An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline . New York: Berghahn.
Woodward, B. (2010) Obama's War . London: Simon & Schuster.

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[1] Barkawi, T. and Stanski, K. (2012) Orientalism and War . London: C. Hurst.

[2] Biddle, S. (2006) Seeing Baghdad, thinking Saigon. Foreign Affairs , March/April.

[3] Brownlee, J. (2014) Was Obama wrong to withdraw troops from Iraq? Washington Post , February.

[4] Cecil, N. (2014) War on Islamist fanatics will last a generation, David Cameron tells troops in Afghanistan. The Evening Standard , 3 October.

[5] Chandrasekaran, R. (2007) Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone . London: Bloomsbury.

[6] Clausewitz, C. V. (1976) On War . Edited and translated by Howard, M. and Paret, P. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

[7] Department of the Army (2006) Field Manual, 3-24 COIN . Washington: Headquarters of the Army.

[8] The Economist (2014) The black flag in Africa. 24 January.

[9] Edelstein, D. M. (2004) Occupational hazards: Why military occupations succeed or fail. International Security . 29 (1), 44–91.

[10] Elkins, C. (2005) Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya . London: Pimlico.

[11] Hoffman, F. (2014) The great revamp: 11 trends shaping the future of conflict. War on the Rocks. Available at: warontherocks.com (accessed 25 February 2015).

[12] House of Commons Defence Committee (2015) The Situation in Iraq and Syria and the Response to al Dawla al-Islamiya fi Al-Iraq al-Sham (DAESH) , HC 690. London: The Stationary Office.

[13] Iron, I. (2013) Basra 2008: Operation charge of the knights. In Bailey, J., Iron, R., and Strachan, H. (eds) British Generals in Blair's Wars . Farnham: Ashgate.

[14] Jones, S. and Johnston, P. (2013) The future of insurgency. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism . 36 (1), 1–25.

[15] Jones, D. M. and Smith, M. L. R. (2010) Grammar but no logic: Technique is not enough – A response to Nagl and Burton. Journal of Strategic Studies . 33 (3), 433–46.

[16] Kaufmann, C. (1999) Intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars. In Art R. J. and Waltz, K. N. (eds) The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 385–405.

[17] Mackinlay, J. (2009) The Insurgent Archipelago . London: C. Hurst.

[18] Marks, T. (2004) Ideology of insurgency: New ethnic focus or old cold war distortions? Small Wars and Insurgencies . 15 (1), 107–28.

[19] McChrystal, S. (2013) My Share of the Task: A Memoir . New York: Penguin Books.

[20] McFate, M. (2005) The military utility of understanding adversary culture. Joint Forces Quarterly . 38 (3), 42–48.

[21] McGrath, K. (2011) Confronting Al Qaeda: New Strategies to Combat Terrorism . Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

[22] Metz, S. (1994) Insurgency after the cold war. Small Wars and Insurgencies . 5, 63–82.

[23] Moniboit, G. (2012) Deny British empires crimes? No, we ignore them. The Guardian , 23 April. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities (accessed 29 June 2015).

[24] Newsinger, J. (1995) From counter-insurgency to internal security: Northern Ireland 1969–1992. Small Wars and Insurgencies . 6 (1), 88–111.

[25] Porter, P. (2009) Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes . New York: Columbia University Press.

[26] Ricks T. E. (2009) The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq . London: Penguin Books.

[27] Sageman, M. (2008) Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

[28] Sayyid, S. (2003) A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism . 2nd ed. London: Zed Books.

[29] Stewart, R. (2006) Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq . London: Picador.

[30] Stout, M. et al. (2008) The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al Qa'ida and Associated Movements . Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

[31] Waterston, A. (ed.) (2008) An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline . New York: Berghahn.

[32] Woodward, B. (2010) Obama's War . London: Simon & Schuster.

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