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Shifting Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency

April 15, 2005 • U.S. Marine Corps Col. Thomas Hammes discusses the Iraqi insurgency and reports about possible rifts among insurgent fighters. Hammes is an expert on guerrilla warfare and the author of The Sling and The Stone: On War in the 21st Century.

Shifting Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency

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'The Sling and the Stone': Next-Generation War

November 18, 2004 • NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Marine Corps Col. Thomas Xavier Hammes, a counter-insurgency specialist, about the current situation in Iraq. Hammes is the author of The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century.

'The Sling and the Stone': Next-Generation War

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