About the book: 1998 / The book was first published in 1931. This book was the first attempt to analyze and create a theory of the so-called. "small war" The book is interesting, illuminates the vision of a small war in the USSR in the 30s, but is still relevant now. To determine the form of armed struggle behind enemy lines, M.A. Drobov chose the term “small war”. The concept of “small war” appeared in the 18th century and was not unambiguously interpreted by various military theorists. To the main forms of small war M.A. Drobov attributed partisanship and sabotage. At the same time, the author divided the first form of struggle into two more forms: guerrilla-insurgency and military-type partisanship, while the first was the basis for the second