Long March: Classic guerrilla warfare tactics helped bring Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists to power.Credit...S.M./SZ Photo — The Image Works (1934-35) For the counterinsurgency experts of a century ago, the extension of European empire into the Middle East offered exciting possibilities. The Italians bombed Libyans on the eve of World War I, but that was just the beginning. From 1919 onward,