"Starting from the observation that soldier participation in violence varies, this book looks into the dynamics of small military units to show how shifting modes of military control shape patterns of participation in violence in counterinsurgency"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction : The production and restraint of military violence -- Participation in counterinsurgency -- narrating conflict and violence : ex-combatants accounts as data -- IDF counterinsurgency in the second intifada -- The production of strategic violence -- The dynamics of entrepreneurial violence -- The production and control of opportunistic violence -- Beyond Israel : counterinsurgent violence and restraint in comparative perspective -- Conclusion : violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.