| ID | 093806 |
| Title Proper | Small wars in the age of Clausewitz |
| Other Title Information | the watershed between Partisan war and people's war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Heuser, Beatrice |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Around the time of Clausewitz's writing, a new element was introduced into partisan warfare: ideology. Previously, under the ancien rgime, partisans were what today we would call special forces, light infantry or cavalry, almost always mercenaries, carrying out special operations, while the main action in war took place between regular armies. Clausewitz lectured his students on such 'small wars'. In the American War of Independence and the resistance against Napoleon and his allies, operations carried out by such partisans merged with counter-revolutionary, nationalist insurgencies, but these Clausewitz analysed in a distinct category, 'people's war'. Small wars, people's war, etc. should thus not be thought of as monopoly of either the political Right or the Left. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 33, No. 1; Feb 2010: p.139 - 162 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Strategic Studies Vol: 33 No 1 |
| Key Words | Small Wars ; Insurgencies ; Counterinsurgency ; Clausewitz ; Guerrilla ; Partisan Warfare |