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Request for Information on Historical COIN
Gents,
I am trying to a compile a comprehensive list for insurgency case studies for my students. The students are cobbling together PPTs using military history or Marshall-style case study format presentations. Here is my 20th century list:
Second Anglo-Boer War (United Kingdom [U.K.] vs. Boer separatists, 1899-1902).
Philippine Insurrection (United States [U.S.] vs. Filipino nationalists, 1899-1902 [1916]).
Arab Revolt (Ottoman Turkey vs. Arab rebels, 1916-1918).
Iraq 1920 (U.K. vs. Iraqi rebels, 1920).
China (Nationalist Party [KMT] vs. Communists, 1922-1949).
Nicaraguan Intervention (U.S. and Government of Nicaragua [GoN] vs. Sandinistas, 1925-1932).
France, World War II (Germany vs. French resistance and Special Operations Executive [SOE]/Office of Strategic Services [OSS], 1940-1945).
Balkans, World War II (Germany vs. Tito’s partisans and SOE/OSS, 1940-1945).
Greek Civil War (U.K., then U.S. and Government of Greece [GoG], vs. National Liberation Army [ELAS], 1944-1949).
Indonesian Revolt (Netherlands vs. Indonesian rebels, 1945-1949).
French Indochina (France vs. Viet Minh, 1945-1954).
Palestine (U.K. vs. Jewish separatists, 1945-1948).
Hukbalahap Rebellion (Philippine Islands [P.I.] vs. Hukbalahap, 1946-1954).
Malayan Emergency (U.K. vs. Malayan Communist Party [MPC]/Malayan Races Liberation Army [MRLA], 1948-1960).
Kenyan Emergency (U.K. vs. Mau Mau, 1952-1956).
Algerian Revolt (France vs. National Liberation Front [FLN], 1954-1962).
Cyprus (U.K. vs. Ethniki Organosis Kyprios Agoniston [EOKA] (a Greek terrorist organization), 1954-1959).
Aden (U.K. and Aden vs. Yemeni insurgents, 1955-1967).
Cuban Revolution (Cuba’s Batista regime vs. Castro, 1956-1959).
France (France vs. Secret Army Organization [OAS], 1958-1962).
Venezuela (Venezuela vs. urban-based Armed Forces for National Liberation [FALN], 1958-1963).
Vietnam War (U.S. and Government of Vietnam [GoVN] vs. National Liberation Front [NLF] and Democratic People’s Republic of Vietnam [DPRVN], 1958-1975).
Guatemalan Civil War (Guatemala vs. Marxist rebels, 1961-1996).
Angola (Portugal vs. Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola [MPLA], 1961-1974).
Guinea-Bissau (Portugal vs. Marxist rebels, 1963-1974).
Uruguay (Uruguay vs. Tupamaros, 1963-1972).
Mozambique (Portugal vs. Front for the Liberation of Mozambique [FRELIMO], 1964-1974).
Colombian Civil War (U.S. and Government of
Colombia [GoC] vs. Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia [FARC] and National Liberation Army
[ELN], 1964-present).
Northern Ireland (U.K. vs. Irish Republican Army [IRA], 1968-present).
Weather Underground (WU) (U.S. vs. Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]/WU, Black Panthers, Symbionese Liberation Army [SLA] et al., 1968-1980).
Spain (Spain vs. Basque Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna [ETA]
(Basque fatherland and liberty), 1968-present).
Oman (U.K. and Oman vs. Popular Front for the
Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf [PFLOAG],
1969-1976).
Germany (Germany vs. Baader-Meinhof/Red Army
Faction [RAF], 1970-1992).
Philippines (P.I. vs. New People’s Army [NPA] and
Moro National Liberation Front [MNLF]/Moro Islamic
Liberation Front [MILF], 1970-present).
Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka vs. Tamil New Tigers [TNT],
1972-present).
Palestine (Israel vs. Palestine Liberation Front [PLF]
et al., 1973-present).
Rhodesia (Rhodesia vs. Zimbabwe African People’s
Union [ZAPU] and Zimbabwe African National Union
[ZANU], 1974-1980).
Western Sahara (Morocco vs. Western Sahara
Freedom Movement [POLISARIO], 1975-1991).
Soviet-Afghan War (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] and Government of Afghanistan [GoA] vs.
Mujahideen, 1979-1988).
Salvadoran Civil War (U.S. and Government of El
Salvador [GoES] vs. Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front [FMLN], 1979-1991).
Senderista Insurgency (Peru vs. Sendero Luminoso,
1980-1995; vs. Tupac Amaru Revolutionary
Movement [MRTA], 1996-1997).
Nicaragua (Frente Sandinista Deliberacion Nacional
[FSLN] vs. National Guard [GN]/Contras, 1980-1990).
Kashmir (India vs. Kashmiri Muslim separatists,
1988-present).
Algeria (Algeria/National Liberation Front [FLN] vs.
Islamic Salvation Front [FIS]/Armed Islamic Group
[GIA], 1992-present).
Somalia Humanitarian Relief Mission (U.S. and UN
vs. armed factions, 1992-1994).
Chechnya (Russia vs. Chechen separatists, 1994-present).
Nepal (Nepal vs. Maoists, 1996-present).
I suspect it is far from comprehensive. I would appreciate any input on this and any 19th century insurgencies or rebellions the worthies here may know of.
Thanks for any aid in this endeavor ahead of time.
Last edited by lysander6; 03-24-2008 at 05:46 PM.
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