Chewing Sand: A Process for Understanding Counter Insurgency Operations

Chewing Sand takes readers through a pedagogical process for understanding how revolutions begin, how insurgents employ differing strategies and tactics, and how the counterinsurgent force must combat these insurgents. If the reader approaches this text with the question, So what does this mean to me in insurgency and counterinsurgency war? then the reader will inevitably find great value just from each author’s insights.