Robert Taber

Robert Bruce Taber (1919–1995) was an American activist, journalist, and scholar.

Taber was born in Chicago in 1919, and grew up in Detroit and Dundee, Illinois, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Taber founded the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPFCC), characterized on the record of 1961 United States Senate hearings "as serving to glorify the Castro government and acting as its publicity agent".

Taber also covered the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, joint to the government forces as a journalist, according to Cuban photographer Ernesto Fernández.

Taber's best known work is The War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare, about "guerrilla insurgencies and their relationship to state power". The book was first published in 1965, and has since been reissued. In it, Taber examines guerilla patterns in Cuba, China, Algeria, Indochina, Ireland, Israel, Cyprus, the Philippines, Malaya, and Greece, among others.

Publications M-26: The Biography of a Revolution. New York: Lyle Stuart (1961). . . The War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare. New York: Lyle Stuart (1965). . .