Request for Information on Historical COIN

[lysander6]

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.

[Steve Blair]

Marc will have some input regarding Canadian squabbles I'm sure, but for the US...

I'd take a look at the Indian Wars, both pre- and post-Civil War (say 1840-1860 and 1866-1891, although there is a good case for going into the Colonial problems and those in the East before 1840). Wide ground I know, but there's some interesting stuff in there.

For campaigns: Arizona from 1848 through 1876.
Kansas and Colorado 1866-1872 (roughly)
Texas 1873-1875
Arizona again (1880s)
Montana (1876)

And that's just scratching the surface.

[Tom Odom]

just a few:

Congo 1960-1965
Congo 1968
Zaire 1977
Zaire 1978

Uganda against Amin
Uganda against Obote

Rwanda 1990-1993 RPF Against GOR Until Arusha
Rwanda 1994 Genocide and RPF Military Victory
Rwanda/Zaire 1996-1997--New GOR COIN against former military/militias
Rwanda/Zaire 1997-???? African "World War"


Many more including Congo-Brazzaville, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Angola into the 1990s, Burundi

Best

Tom

[William F. Owen]

Many more including Congo-Brazzaville, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Angola into the 1990s, Burundi

Sierra Leone/Liberia, 1992-99

[marct]

Marc will have some input regarding Canadian squabbles I'm sure,

Yup, and I wold have got it sooner, but I'm on the road now.

1837 Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada
the 1868 Riel Rebellion
the 1885 Riel Rebellion

Marc

[Mike in Hilo]

Palestine Arab Revolt 1936-39

Cheers,
Mike.

[aborgu]

A few other case studies to consider (but by no means exhaustible):

Kurdistan (Iraq); Laos (1958-75); Cambodia (1958-75); Eritrea (1961-1993); South Africa (ANC); Namibia (SWAPO); East Timor (Fretlin); PNG/Bougainville (BRA); Indoensia/Aceh (GAM); Somalia (1991-present); Indonesia (Darul Islam); Thailand (both Communist and Southern insurgencies); Philippines (NPA and Moro insurgencies); Angola (UNITA), Mozambique (RENAMO); Morocco (POLISARIO); India (Naxalite, Assam etc); Burma (Karen); Pakistan (Baluchi, Waziristan); Turkey (PKK).

[Jedburgh]

....Kurdistan (Iraq);.......Turkey (PKK).

The Kurdish case, in both Iraq and Turkey, offers an opportunity to study the evolution of ethnic separatist movements. Both countries experienced a series of Kurdish nationalist revolts from the early part of the 20th century until today. Well, Iraq has experienced it throughout the century - but the Turks responded so harshly in the '20s and '30s (16 Kurdish uprisings, the most well-known being Sheikh Said, Dersim, and Agri Dag) that Kurdish nationalism didn't spark revolt in Turkey again until the emergence of the PKK.

[lysander6]

Thanks so much for the input. Is there a comprehensive one stop shopping for conflict categories and listings of historical COIN?

[aborgu]

There's no one central list that's constantly updated that I'm aware of (though others may have better sources). Wikipedia has a listing here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerril...rical_examples but that has all the usual risks involved with wiki entries

Another source is the USMC's Small Wars Center of Excellence with both current and past insurgencies at http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/sw_today.asp and http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/sw_past.asp

There's also a good listing in a NPS postgraduate study on Why Insurgencies Fail - Appendix A has a list of post-WW2 insurgencies. I'm fairly sure the SWC Library has a copy of the paper. Finally, there's a list of insurgencies the UK has been involved in at http://www.britains-smallwars.com/main/index1.html