Rewriting the "Detestable" Rules of War: The "Guerrilla System" and Counterinsurgency in Napoleonic Spain and the Mexican-American War, 1808-1848
During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency that undermined Napoleon’s grip on that state. The advent of this novel and illegal “system” of warfare ushered in an era of military studies on the use of unconventional strategies in military campaigns...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/673475 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673475 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Adame Alcabala Mexico American Arab warfare Aragon British Carlist Catalonia Catholic church Civil War COIN Constitution Contra-guerrillas Cortez Empecinado Expansionism France Geneva convention Jack Hays Henry Halleck Insurgency Insurrection Joseph Bonaparte Laws of war Lieber code Madrid William Marcy War Military Napoleon Occupation Pacification James Polk Prescott Reille Rocca Santa Anna Saragossa Senate Sertorius Spain Suchet Zachary Taylor United States U.S. Army Vietnam Winfield Scott Wellington Vattel Vendée Veracruz Zaragoza 1808 1846 1848 9 |
| Sumario: | During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency that undermined Napoleon’s grip on that state. The advent of this novel and illegal “system” of warfare ushered in an era of military studies on the use of unconventional strategies in military campaigns – and changed the modern rules of war. A generation later during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Henry Halleck and Winfield Scott used the knowledge from the Peninsular War to implement an innovative “conciliatory” counterinsurgency program directed at the Mexican people – which set the U.S. doctrinal standard informing an international consensus on the proper conduct for occupation. The Spanish war against the French influenced both belligerents in Mexico: the Mexicans tried to mount a guerrilla war modeled along Spanish lines, and the Americans adapted their tactics, rules, and laws of war between 1808 to 1848 to avoid the disastrous imperial overreach exemplified by the French in Spain. |
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