The Insurgent Archipelago: From Mao to Bin Laden (Columbia/Hurst)

by John MacKinlay

As a young British officer in the Gurkha regiment, John Mackinlay served in the rainforests of North Borneo and experienced firsthand the Maoist-style insurgencies of the 1960s. Years later, as a United Nations researcher, he witnessed the chaotic deployment of international forces to Africa, the Balkans, and South Asia, and the transformation of territorial, labor-intensive uprisings into the international insurgent networks we know today. After...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231701179
• ISBN13: 9780231701174
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher