While small wars are not new, how they should be fought by a modern industrial nation is still a question to be answered. This work, edited and annotated by Chief Historian of the Marine Corps, Charles D. Melson, examines the German analysis to the problem of small wars, covering their experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third Reich. This work is built around the historical analysis titled Kleinkrieg, provided to the German High Command by Arthur Earhardt in 1935 (republished in 1942 and 1943) which examined insurgencies from French-occupied Spain to recurrent problems in the Balkans.