Introducing warrior scholars / Carlos Gaspar -- Constructing and deconstructing warrior-scholars / Andrew Mumford and Bruno C.Reis -- Warrior scholarship in the age of colonial warfare: Charles E. Callwell and small wars / Daniel Whittingham -- David Galula and Roger Trinquier: two warrior-scholars, one French late colonial counterinsurgency? / Bruno C. Reis -- Warrior-scholars in the United States Marine Corps: from the small wars in the Caribbean to the "three block war" and beyond / David Strachan-Morris -- A very sharp eye: Moshe Dayan's counterinsurgency legacy in Israel / Eitan Shamir -- Low intensity operations in theory and practice: General Sir Frank Kitson as warrior-scholar / Huw Bennett and Rory Cormac -- Warrior scholarship in the age of globalised insurgency: the work of David Kilcullen / Andrew Mumford -- Counterinsurgency American style: David Petraeus and twenty-first century war / James A. Russell.