Eliot Cohen, writing in Foreign Affairs, suggests what to read on fighting insurgencies:
- Guerrilla Strategies: An Historical Anthology From the Long March to Afghanistan edited by Gérard Chaliand
- Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare edited by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian
- Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula
- War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province by Jeffrey Race
- Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor
- The Bear Trap: Afghanistan’s Untold Story by Mohammed Yousaf and Mark Adkin
- The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
- Bloody Sunday directed by Paul Greengrass
- Small Wars Journal