An excellent primer on "low-intensity conflict", with a lot of questionable speculation thrown in

Review of The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz by Martin Van Creveld

Van Creveld has one idea to advance: the old state-run military strategy, as articulated by Clausewitz, is being overtaken by "low-intensity conflict". All the old rules, he argues, need to be thrown out because they are ineffective, prohibitively expensive, and too dangerous. The ultimate upshot, he speculates, is that the state itself will deteriorate…