Review: Arms and Doctrine: Guerrillas and Terrorists, Terrorism in Latin America
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207803300309 |
| Date | 01 September 1978 |
| Author | John Gellner |
| Published date | 01 September 1978 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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JOURNAL
scale,
which would enable men
to
think,
decide,
and
act
for
the
attain-
ment
of
their
political
ends
in
the
always
unique
circumstances
of
war,
a
province
of
human
activity
offering
quite
extraordinary
challenges
and
opportunities. Paret
does
this against
a
richly
developed
study
of
the man's public
and
private
life
in
the
Napoleonic, Reform,
and
post-
Reform
eras, his
search
for
place
and
distinction,
his
distinguished
if
not
brilliant
military
career, his
deep
attachment
to
and partnership
with
his
wife,
his
services
to
and saddened
disenchantments
with
the
crown,
what
might
be called
the
blemishes
of
his
time,
place,
and
educa-
tion
(anti-semitism
and
a
prejudice
against
the
Poles),
a
certain
pessi-
mism
which
may
have
been more
transient
than
characteristic
of
this
man
so
sure
of himself
and
of
his
intellectual
powers,
and
matters
con-
cerning
his
health,
from
early
arthritis and
hemorrhoids
to
the
cholera
that
swiftly
carried
him
off
in
the
great
pandemic
of
1831.
A
lengthy
study
that
is
tight
beyond the
ordinary,
this
is
a
major
work of
scholarship,
at
once
demanding and
rewarding.
This
reader
does
not
know
the
German
literature
and
has
not
read Raymond
Aron's
recent
two
volumes
on
Clausewitz,
but
he
would
be
surprised
if
the
thoroughness
and
authority
of
Paret's
writing
had
been
surpassed.
Clausewitz
is
revealed
here
as
a
proud,
ambitious,
yet
sensitive
and
somehow
retiring,
original
thinker
and
perceptive
student
of
history.
It
will
not
be
easy
to
mistake
him
again.
John
C.
Cairns/University
of
Toronto
GUERRILLAS
AND
TERRORISTS
Richard Clutterbuck
London: Faber
&
Faber
[Don Mills,
Ont:
Oxford
University
Press],
1977,
l25pp,
$12.75
TERRORISM
IN
LATIN
AMERICA
Ernst
Halperin
Beverly
Hills:
Sage,
1976,
92pp,
$3.00
The
guerilla
(however
Richard
Clutterbuck
and
others
may be
using
the
term,
a
guerilla
is
a
'small
war,'
not
the
individual
engaged
in
it)
is
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