Contemporary, NON-western insurgency/COIN literature or manuals

[davidbfpo]

C-Warner asked:

Can you be more specific about the "Anglo-Omani" aspects of the books concerning Oman? Thanks for your interest.

The focus of the books and articles seen has been on the Dhofar campaign being a truly 'Small War', in an Arab, Muslim country with a long history of British involvement and with British officers in command.

I can only put my hand on one book now, 'SAS Operation Oman by Tony Jeapes, pub. 1980, which has nine references to the Iranians - nothing on any separate Iranian COIN approach, they were under Oman's command exercised by British officers.

One of the British commanders John Akehurst wrote a book 'We Won a War', pub. 1982 and one RUSI Journal reviewer noted:

The book is kind to the Iranian forces, whose contribution was of great importance. But their operational shortcomings are not concealed..

The last published book I've noted was 'In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency', pub. 2006, by a then young British officer, Ian Gardiner; it had good reviews in RUSI Journal, but I have not read it.

[SJPONeill]

Found this in my library while looking for something else (ain't it always the way?)

Artillery and counterinsurgency - the Soviet experience in Afghanistan

[davidbfpo]

Thanks to the Kiwi.

There is a thread on the Soviet experience in Afghanistan, no manuals IIRC, but plenty of help:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=9483

[SJPONeill]

http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/chega...inalReportEng/

This one might provide some insights into the philosophies employed by Indonesia during its occupation of Eats Timor 1976-99, although it is written from the perspective of the local population...

[c_warner]

Thanks to everyone for the input...it has generated some fresh material for me to look into. The Soviet experiences look particularly interesting.

[jcustis]

I'd look no further than Sri Lanka, although it is argued that the fight against the LTTE was less about classical COIN and more about unrestricted counterinsurgent business (the third link down is important to note and review). Although these are less the literature you may be looking for and more news pieces, hopefully it generates leads for further research:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...581490#preview

http://stupidest.wordpress.com/2009/...terinsurgency/

http://www.futuredirections.org.au/f...bruary2010.pdf

http://harvardnsj.org/2011/06/think-...rom-sri-lanka/

http://www.idsa.in/event/SriLankaStr...rismExperience

http://news.rediff.com/column/2010/j...operations.htm

http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=ltte

http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=ltte

Now that the LTTE has been comprehensively defeated, how would you put it in the context of the Tamil ethnic struggle?

The struggle for Tamil equality and justice for Tamils did not start with the LTTE and will not end with LTTE. I am not saying that the LTTE has come to an end. But the Sri Lankan government claims to have dealt a comprehensive military defeat.

If indeed their top leadership has been killed that will be a major setback for the LTTE. The struggle for equality and justice of the Tamil-speaking people is very legitimate and has existed even before the LTTE came.

The Sri Lankan situation needs to be put in the right context of the cost of such a "victory" in order to glean relevant knowledge..

[Jedburgh]

I am in possession of a 3 volume set of pamphlets (in Arabic) published by Fatah between 1980 and 1983 on military tactics and operations, with a heavy focus on insurgency. However, there's really nothing new to be found in 'em, as the content is built around well-known and widely published leftist insurgency theory from that late Cold War period.