[lbo-talk] Re: Nepal: "Maoist" and "Unified Marxist-Leninist"

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 15:41:52 PDT 2006


http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB49.pdf

Insurgency in Nepal by Dr. Thomas A. Marks published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. Makes note of Left scholarship like, "The People's War in Nepal: Left Perspectives (Hardcover) by Arjun Karki and David Seddon, http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/2.117/2.124/2.125/2.126/2.169/2.200/2.401

INSURGENCY IN NEPAL Insurgencies in the 21st century are different than the Cold War era ones that generated existing doctrine and strategy, and which shaped the way that most American strategists think about insurgency. This monograph assesses the growing insurgency in Nepal with its potential to further destabilize an already volatile region. Published Dec 2003

THOMAS A. MARKS is Professor of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism at the School for National Security Executive Education (SNSEE) of National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC and the author of Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam (London, 1996), considered the current standard on the subject of "people's war."...In recent years, Dr. Marks has, in a variety of publications, for a variety of clients, analyzed conflicts as far-flung as those in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Laos, the Philippines, and Northern Ireland. His most recent operational endeavor was service, in a contract capacity, as the operations consultant for a newly raised Saudi Arabian commando unit. His scholarly and journalistic works number in the hundreds. His latest book is Counter-Revolution in China: Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang (London: Frank Cass, 1997); his latest monographs, all published by the U.S. Army War College (Carlisle), are: Colombian Army Adaptation to FARC Insurgency (2002), Insurgency in Nepal (2003), and Sustainability of Colombian Military/Strategic Support for "Democratic Security" (2005).



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