People's War (RLE Modern East and South East Asia)

Name: People's War (RLE Modern East and South East Asia)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book, first published in 1969, casts a critical eye over the problem of insurgency. The author sees insurgency not just as a matter of technique \u2013 military tactics or organizational skill \u2013 nor as the result of \u2018force and fraud\u2019, but as \u2018people\u2019s war\u2019: the conditions in which the mass of the people become involved, voluntarily or otherwise, on either side. He quotes Nasution\u2019s statement, \u2018The guerrilla movement is only the result, not the cause of the problem\u2019. People\u2019s war brings the peasantry, hitherto ignorant, apathetic or rejected, into the political process. For \u2018war is \u2026 the continuation of politics by other means\u2019. In Asia this was essentially a peasant\u2019s war, arising when peasant grievances, interests or demands cannot be met under the existing \u2018legitimate\u2019 but urban or landowner-orientated system of rule. It shows little understanding to blame outside intervention when peasant \u2013 a.