{"product_id":"2940148720638","title":"COMPOUND WARFARE: That Fatal Knot","description":"In the long history of warfare, a recurring theme is the combined use\u003cbr\u003eof regular and irregular forces to pursue victory. The American\u003cbr\u003ecolonists relied upon regular Continental Army troops and local militia\u003cbr\u003ein their war for independence. British troops commanded by\u003cbr\u003eWellington fought alongside Spanish peasant guerrillas against\u003cbr\u003eNapoleon in Spain. The Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong\u003cbr\u003eorganized local militia units, regional forces, and a regular army for use\u003cbr\u003ein their struggle to topple the Nationalist government. In these and\u003cbr\u003emany other cases, the practice of employing regular and irregular forces\u003cbr\u003etogether was not only applied, but also instrumental in bringing victory\u003cbr\u003eto the side that at the beginning of the conflict seemed clearly inferior to\u003cbr\u003eits opponent.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1996, in an article entitled “Napoleon in Spain,” Dr. Thomas M.\u003cbr\u003eHuber of the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) coined the term\u003cbr\u003e“compound warfare” to describe this phenomenon of regular and\u003cbr\u003eirregular forces fighting in concert, as he examined the reasons for\u003cbr\u003eNapoleon’s failure to pacify the Iberian Peninsula. The article, written\u003cbr\u003eto support CSI’s course in modern warfare at the U.S. Army Command\u003cbr\u003eand General Staff College, received high praise from student officers,\u003cbr\u003efrom the CSI faculty, and from the Institute’s director at the time,\u003cbr\u003eColonel Jerry Morelock. Impressed by Dr. Huber’s analysis of the\u003cbr\u003esynergistic effects achieved by Wellington’s British Army and Spanish\u003cbr\u003eguerrillas as they worked together against Napoleon’s forces, Col.\u003cbr\u003eMorelock suggested that other members of CSI examine examples of\u003cbr\u003ethis pattern of warfare in other times and places. This book is a\u003cbr\u003ecompilation of their studies.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108950655216,"sku":"2940148720638","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148720638_p0.jpg?v=1763706968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148720638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}