Among the classics of protracted war, including guerrilla war, Mao Tse-Tung, Strategic Problems in the Anti-japanese Guerrilla War, and On the Protracted War, Foreign Languages Press, Peking. 1945; and General GiapVo Nguyen, National Liberation War in Viet Nam, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, 1971.
10.
Shultz, op. cit., p. 128
11.
The Chechens are the most dashing horsemen and cattle-rustlers of the Caucasus. They were famous in Tsarist times for their lightning raids called ‘Nabegi’. When Alexander Dumas began his travels in Caucasus in 1858, a 15-year boy welcomed him wearing a gun and a dagger in his belt. His 7 year old brother“had a dagger as tall as himself”! WoolThomas De, “Yeltsin’s Russia Caught in Chechen Quagmire”. The Statesman, Calcutta, 12Jan, 1996, p. 9, reprinted from The Times, London.
12.
The Statesman, 25Jan.1996, p. 13.
13.
Ibid, 15April1996, p. I.
14.
State-supported insurgency and terrorism in the South Asian context in Subir Bhowmik, “Insurgency as Diplomacy in Post-Colonial South Asia”, in SamaddarRanabir (ed.) Cannons into Ploughshares. Lancer. New Delhi, 1995, pp, 123–143; and SinghHarcharanMajor, “Human Rights and the Armed Forces in Low Intensity Conflict Operations”,U.S.I. Journal, New Delhi, Vol. CXXV, No. 521, July-Sept.1995, pp, 323–334.
