The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad: From Gazavat to Jihad

For the first time, a military expert on both Russia and insurgency offers the definitive guide on activities in Southern Russia, explaining why the Russian approach to counter terrorism is failing and why terrorist and insurgent attacks in Russia have sharply increased over the past three years.

• Information drawn from the North Caucasus Incident Database (NCID), compiling every violent incident in the region over a two-year period

• Charts showing the complex strategies of the insurgency and the Russian counterinsurgency campaigns

• Maps, charts, and a bibliography

• The first doctrinal analysis (classified or unclassified) produced on the conflict in over 10 years

• Declassified Intelligence reports