"A systematic, comprehensive, and straightforward textbook for analyzing and comparing insurgencies and terrorist movements, Insurgency and Terrorism was first published in 1990 to broad acclaim. Now it has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover activity that has since occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Colombia, and elsewhere and to address the new tactics and weapons used - and threatened. Author Bard E. O'Neill, the director of studies of insurgencies and revolution at the National War College, addresses insurgencies with respect to ultimate goals, strategies, organization, the role and means of acquiring popular support, causes and effects of disunity, types of external support, and government responses. Course syllabus included."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Insurgency in the contemporary world -- 2. The nature of insurgency -- 3. Insurgent strategies -- 4. The environment -- 5. Popular support -- 6. Organization and unity -- 7. External support -- 8. Government response.