War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare

War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare

by Robert Taber
War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare

War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare

by Robert Taber

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Overview

“The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog’s disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.” With these words, Robert Taber began a revolution in conventional military thought that has dramatically impacted the way armed conflicts have been fought since the book’s initial publication in 1965. Whether ideological, nationalistic, or religious, all guerrilla insurgencies use similar tactics to advance their cause. War of the Flea's timeless analysis of the guerrilla fighter’s means and methods provides a fundamental resource for any reader seeking to understand this distinct form of warfare and the challenge it continues to present to today’s armed forces in the Philippines, Colombia, and elsewhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781574885552
Publisher: Potomac Books
Publication date: 08/01/2002
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 214
Sales rank: 201,783
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Taber traveled to Cuba in the late 1950s as a CBS investigative journalist to cover the country’s burgeoning revolutionary movement. He became an eyewitness to history as he marched from the Sierra Maestra to Havana with the ragtag revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, who forced Batista to flee the country. Taber also wrote M-26: Biography of a Revolution.
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