Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states – Mao’s China, Guevara’s Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam – shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of twentieth-century communist guerilla warfare still echoes in contemporary warfare as armed Islamist groups, often seen as violently opposed to leftist principles, adopt the same military methods and tactics that Chinese leader Mao Zedong…