Gérard Chaliand

Gérard Chaliand (15 February 1934 – 20 August 2025) was a Belgian-born French expert in geopolitics who published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand's analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, mostly based on his field experience with insurgent forces, have appeared in more than 20 books and in numerous newspaper articles.

Chaliand spent more than five years as a visiting professor in the United States at Harvard, UCLA and UC Berkeley. He worked autonomously throughout his career, unconstrained by the perspectives of national governments and policy institutes. As a result, his work provides an independent perspective on many of the major conflicts that characterized the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a published poet. Provided by Wikipedia