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Book Description: As a British Gurkha officer assigned to the jungle borders of North Borneo, John McKinlay experienced firsthand the Maoist style insurgencies of the 1950s and 1960s. Later in his career, as a scholar researching Muslim NGOs and preventative security, he witnessed the transformation of territorial, labor intensive uprisings into the international networks of individuals and communities that operate across the world today. In this book, McKinlay maps the transformation of these movements against the rapid modernization of their origin cities, noting the ways in which technology has accelerated and complicated a variety of coalitions and the efforts to defeat them. Our current bin Laden era, McKinlay argues, must be understood from a Maoist perspective of insurgency. The campaigns of mid century are directly linked to the global movements of tomorrow, yet the past two decades of insurgent activity have also marked a new chapter in the practice, in which 'propaganda of the deed' has become central. This shift presents a new challenge to our vertical structured response to terror and places a greater emphasis on mastering the virtual, cyber based dimension of these campaigns. McKinley revisits the roots of global insurgencies, describes their nature and character, reveals the power of mass communications and grievance, and recommends how individual nations can counter these threats by focusing on domestic terrorism.

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