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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,207,925 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,765,786 ratings — published 2010
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,309 ratings — published 2009
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,123 ratings — published 2012
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 4 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210 ratings — published 1964
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,015 ratings — published 2013
1968: The Year that Rocked the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,419 ratings — published 2003
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,034 ratings — published 1977
Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,399 ratings — published 1961
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,019,038 ratings — published 2008
Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.78 — 228 ratings — published 1961
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,261 ratings — published 1926
On Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,429 ratings — published 1935
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,872 ratings — published 2002
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.21 — 496 ratings — published 2015
Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.76 — 116 ratings — published 2002
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,005 ratings — published 2013
Among the Free (Shadow Children, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,608 ratings — published 2006
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.40 — 55 ratings — published 2014
Possession (Possession, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.58 — 9,542 ratings — published 2011
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,632,244 ratings — published 2012
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,246 ratings — published 2002
War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.08 — 102 ratings — published 1975
The Coming Insurrection (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,816 ratings — published 2007
Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.39 — 64,855 ratings — published 2009
War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.16 — 725 ratings — published 1965
Counterinsurgency (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.03 — 724 ratings — published 2010
Street Without Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,429 ratings — published
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.91 — 874 ratings — published 2004
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 4.19 — 158 ratings — published 1996
Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,167 ratings — published 2010
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as insurgency)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,452 ratings — published 1983
Moondogs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.66 — 429 ratings — published 2011
Abandon (Possession, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,447 ratings — published 2013
“Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.76 — 85 ratings — published 2021
Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.68 — 50 ratings — published 2009
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.53 — 764 ratings — published 2010
Denton Little's Deathdate (Denton Little #1)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,889 ratings — published 2015
These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.89 — 291 ratings — published 2005
Writing On The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.57 — 49 ratings — published 2008
When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Historical Materialism)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,494 ratings — published 2021
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,140 ratings — published 2018
Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.29 — 45 ratings — published
The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.17 — 148 ratings — published
For Glory And Honour (Warhammer 40,000)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.50 — 34 ratings — published
By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.15 — 488 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as insurgency)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,865 ratings — published -411
“The San Fernando massacre is a landmark in the Mexican Drug War. It surely woke up anyone who still doubted the existence of a serious armed conflict south of the Rio Grande. But for those following the mass attacks on migrants, it was a tragedy waiting to happen.
San Fernando began just like all the rest of the mass kidnappings. Zetas gunmen stopped the victims at a checkpoint and abducted them, in this case from two buses. The group featured many of the usual Central Americans, but was atypical in that it also had large numbers of Brazilians and Ecuadorians. The Zetas marched the prisoners to the San Fernando ranch, which is in Tamaulipas state, just a hundred miles from the U.S. border. After a long, hard journey, the migrants were closer than ever to their destination. Then something went wrong, and the Zetas decided to murder everybody.
The pure scale of death shocked the world. The seventy-two corpses were piled haphazardly around the edge of the breeze-block barn, arms and legs twisted over one another, waists and backs contorted. There were teenagers, middle-aged men, young girls, even a pregnant woman. This horror could not be ignored.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
San Fernando began just like all the rest of the mass kidnappings. Zetas gunmen stopped the victims at a checkpoint and abducted them, in this case from two buses. The group featured many of the usual Central Americans, but was atypical in that it also had large numbers of Brazilians and Ecuadorians. The Zetas marched the prisoners to the San Fernando ranch, which is in Tamaulipas state, just a hundred miles from the U.S. border. After a long, hard journey, the migrants were closer than ever to their destination. Then something went wrong, and the Zetas decided to murder everybody.
The pure scale of death shocked the world. The seventy-two corpses were piled haphazardly around the edge of the breeze-block barn, arms and legs twisted over one another, waists and backs contorted. There were teenagers, middle-aged men, young girls, even a pregnant woman. This horror could not be ignored.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“When you go back to Pablo Ecobar, this guy blew up a passenger plane, police headquarters, funded guerrillas to kill Supreme Court justices, and had the number one Colombian presidential candidate assassinated. Now there is no organization in Colombia that can go toe-to-toe with the government, that can threaten the national security of Colombia. In each successive generation of traffickers there has been a dilution of their power.
“Pablo Escobar lasted fifteen years. The average kingpin here now lasts fifteen months. If you are named as a kingpin here, you are gone. The government of Colombia and the government of the United States will not allow a trafficker to exist long enough to become a viable threat.”
In this analysis, drug enforcement can be seen as a giant hammer that keeps on falling. Any gangster that gets too big gets smashed by the hammer. This is known as cartel decapitation, taking out the heads of the gang. The villains are kept in check. But the drug trade does go on, and so does the war.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“Pablo Escobar lasted fifteen years. The average kingpin here now lasts fifteen months. If you are named as a kingpin here, you are gone. The government of Colombia and the government of the United States will not allow a trafficker to exist long enough to become a viable threat.”
In this analysis, drug enforcement can be seen as a giant hammer that keeps on falling. Any gangster that gets too big gets smashed by the hammer. This is known as cartel decapitation, taking out the heads of the gang. The villains are kept in check. But the drug trade does go on, and so does the war.”
― El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
