ABSTRACT
The liturgy of scholarship assigns a preeminent place to the imperative of a comprehensive bibliography. The more general guides to the literature were also of little help. Those devoted generically to military affairs and national security were too panoramic to be very useful for the more restricted subject of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. The coverage is focused as finely on revolutionary guerrilla warfare as that blurred category permits, excluding materials devoted to more general themes, such as violence and modernization, although they are often apropos. The fortuitous revelation of that avowedly counterrevolutionary project and the ensuing barrage of public criticism sent Special Operations Research Office scrambling for cover. While the agency lasted, however, its output was prodigious, including two separate series of bibliographies devoted exclusively to revolutionary guerrilla warfare. Comprising large initial bibliographies and a program of periodically updated supplements, these are collectively perhaps the best source existing for the retrieval of recent literature, popular and scholarly.
