Guerrilla War, Counterinsurgency, and State Formation in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1911.

• Author: Wilhite, Vincent.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 pages)

This book is the first military history of guerrilla war and counterinsurgency in Yemen during the Ottoman period in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Approaches to Total War, Guerrilla War and Counterinsurgency -- 1 The Principles of Total War -- 2 Guerrilla War and State Formation in Yemen -- 2.1 The Land and People of Yemen -- 2.2 The Zaydi Imamate -- 2.3 The Principles of Guerrilla War and the Zaydi Imamate -- 2.4 The Zaydi Imamate as a Tribal Quasi-state -- 3 Intertribal War and Segmentary Lineage Theory -- 4 Jihad, the Tribal Quasi-state and the Zaydi Imamate -- 5 Counterinsurgency and State Formation in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire -- 5.1 The Principles of Counterinsurgency and the Evolution of Ottoman Policy in Yemen -- 5.2 Classical Ottoman Methods of Dealing with Rebellion -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 The Collapse of the Qāsimī Imamate -- 1 The Imamate as a Tribal Quasi-state -- 2 The Transformation of the Imamate in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Social Aspects of the Hādāwī-Sunni Conflict -- 4 The Outbreak of Civil War -- 5 Islam and Anarchy: the Moral Language of the Zaydi Chroniclers -- 6 Anarchy and Honor -- 7 The Culture and Conduct of War in the Period of Disintegration: "Irregular Warriors" and Heroic Culture -- 8 The Objectives of War -- 8.1 Plunder -- 8.2 The Acquisition of Land -- 8.3 The Acquisition of "Honor" through the Demonstration of Courage -- 9 Weapons and Tactics -- 10 Conclusion -- 3 The Conquest of Yemen and ʿAsīr -- 1 The Technological and Military-Organizational Changes of the Mid-nineteenth Century -- 2 Callwell, Napoleonic Strategy, and the Ottoman Command -- 3 The Conquest of ʿAsīr -- 4 The Conquest of Yemen -- 4.1 The Conquest of Ḥarāz -- 4.2 The Conquest of the Ṣanʿāʾ Region -- 4.3 The Siege of Kawkabān -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 Limited Rebellion and Counterinsurgency, 1872-91 -- 1 The Infrastructure of Control in Yemen -- 1.1 The Military Forces.

1.2 Communications and Transport Infrastructure -- 1.3 Problems in Supply and Manpower -- 2 Conflict between the Administration and the Population -- 3 War and Rebellion among the Zaydi Tribes, 1872-91 -- 4 Ottoman Methods of Dealing with Rebellion in Yemen, 1872-91 -- 5 Early Counterinsurgency Policies in Yemen -- 6 Conclusion -- 5 The 1891 Rebellion -- 1 Al-Manṣūr and Sharaf al-Dīn's Tribal Quasi-state -- 2 The Ideology of Jihad -- 3 Propaganda in the 1891 Uprising -- 4 Competition for the Support of the Zaydi Tribes -- 5 The Imam's Tribal Quasi-state as a Counter State -- 6 The Imam's State and the Progress of the Fighting -- 7 Manpower and Tactics in the Rebellion -- 8 The Ottoman Reaction -- Feyzi Paşa's Campaign to Retake the Highlands -- 9 Conclusion -- 6 Guerrilla War as Long-Term War in Yemen -- 1 Iṣlāḥ -- 2 The ʿIṣābāt -- 3 The ʿIṣābāt and the Zaydis' Mobilization for War -- 4 The Military Methods of the ʿIsābāt -- 5 Conclusion -- 7 Feyzi Paşa and Punitive Repression -- 1 The "Unity of Islam" Policy, Repression, and Total War -- 2 Total War and Feyzi Paşa -- 3 The Rebellion of 1898 -- 4 Conclusion -- 8 The Policies of Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa -- 1 The Development of a Counterinsurgency Program -- 2 The Implementation of the Reform Commission's Program -- 3 The Failure of Reform in Yemen -- 4 Conclusion -- 9 The 1898-9 Ottoman Military Campaign -- 10 The 1904-5 Rebellion -- 1 The Accession of Imam Yaḥyā -- 2 The ʿIṣābāt and the Instigation of the Rebellion -- 3 The Strategy of the Imam -- 4 Small Arms and the Rebellion -- 5 The Tactics of the Imam's Forces -- 6 Mobile Tactics and the Rout of Rıza Paşa's Expeditionary Force -- 7 The Imam's Treasury and Victory through Starvation -- 8 Feyzi Paşa's Second Reconquest of the Highlands -- 9 The Shahāra Campaign -- 10 Conclusion -- 11 Epilogue and Conclusion -- 1 The Context of the Young Turk Revolution.

2 Developments to the Treaty of Daʿān -- 3 İzzet Paşa and the Treaty of Daʿān -- 4 The Lessons of the Ottoman Wars in Yemen -- Works Consulted -- Primary Sources -- Archival -- Manuscript -- Published Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Internet Sources -- Index.