How wars are fought
Readings
Book chapters can be found here
Required
Chapters 1-3 in Robert Taber, The War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Potomac Books, 1965). 📅 Read for Tuesday.
- Robert Taber was a journalist who covered the Cuban Revolution and agitated in favor of the revolution led by Castro, Guevara, and others. As you will see in his writing, he is by no means pretending to be objective about these conflicts, but he has interesting things to say about how these wars are fought and their internal logic.
Chapter 1 in Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 📅 Read for Thursday.
Recommended
- Chapter 7 in Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- Dara Kay Cohen, “Explaining Rape During Civil War: Cross-national Evidence (19802009),” American Political Science Review 107, no. 3 (2013): 461–477.