Guerrilla War, Counterinsurgency, and State Formation in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1911.
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.
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
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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.