Zapata's War: Campaigns Against the Federal Army, 1911-1914 Paperback – November 20, 2023

The conquest of the Mexica, the Great Dying of the sixteenth century, the Spanish encomienda system, pre-Columbian territorial disputes that stretched back to “tiempos inmemorables,” and nineteenth century industrialization created an entrenched land tenure dilemma in Mexico. In southern Mexico, a movement that became known as “Zapatismo,” named after its leader, Emiliano Zapata, arose at the beginning of the twentieth century that sought a solution to the nation’s agrarian problem. Its armed faction assumed the name of the “Liberating Army of the South and Center,” and this is perhaps the only military history of that army’s fight against the administrations of Porfirio Díaz, Madero, and Victoriano Huerta.This is a no-nonsense, unsentimental, assessment of the Zapatista movement viewed through the objective lens of military history. This is not revisionist history. It is the base line military history of Zapata’s Liberating Army.Through careful and meticulous study, Dr. Janssens finds that the asymmetrical warfare conducted by Emiliano Zapata and his followers in the South was not that of hit-and-run strikes by small and independent parties typically associated with guerrilla warfare. Rather, other forms of asymmetrical warfare characterized the Mexican Revolution in the Zapatista areas of operations, which distinguished itself in many ways from any other. Read more