Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Stetson, Dorothy M.

Abstract

This paper explores the phenomenon of urban insurgent warfare. A case study concerning the use of urban insurgent and counter-urban insurgent warfare in Palestine by the British Mandatory Government and Jewish urban insurgent organizations (the Irgun Zvei Leumi and the Lohmey Heruth Israel) from 1943 to 1948 is employed as a means to both test and create hypotheses concerning the use of urban insurgent and counter-insurgent warfare. The Palestine case is reviewed and then classified within the terminology of revolutionary change. The terms revolution, revolutionary war, guerrilla warfare and insurgent terrorism are defined for the above purpose. T he Palestine case is shown to be an example of urban guerrilla revolutionary warfare. The traditional hypothesis concerning the ability of an urban insurgent organization to operate against the repressive abilities of a modern government is presented and shown to be in contradiction to the historical data of the Palestine case. New hypotheses are then formulated to account for the events of the Palestine case. The Palestine case is analyzed as to both the reasons for the failure of the governmental counter-urban insurgent campaign and the reasons for the success of urban insurgent actions in Palestine.

Extent

242 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

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FADT13778

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