Seminar: Insurgency & Counterinsurgency

This seminar examines the interrelated historical phenomena of insurgency and counterinsurgency and the challenges both have posed in the past, currently pose in the present, and may pose in the future. Students will consider historical case studies of insurgency/counterinsurgency and read and discuss major theorists, including Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevara, David Galula, and current U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps COIN doctrine.