War In The Shadows : The Guerrilla In History (No Front Cover attached to book)

LENIN'S HERITAGE -- Darius bows to Scythian guerrillas -- Alexander the Great's tactics against the Asiatic Scythians -- Hannibal's victory over Alpine guerrillas -- Rome's colonial wars -- The war of Spartacus -- Caesar and Cassivellaunus -- The Roman pacification of Spain -- Scipio's campaign -- Cato's reply to the guerrillas -- The reforms of Gracchus and Marcellus -- The shame of Lucullus and Galba -- The rise and fall of brave Viriathus -- Scipio Aemilianus' reforms -- The extraordinary rebellion of Quintus Sertorius -- Hannibal's cunning -- Fabian strategy and tactics -- Warfare in early China -- The amazing Sun Tzu : The Art of War -- Quasi-guerrilla tactics of Goths and Huns -- Fridigern and the battle of Adrianople -- Political weaknesses of the barbarians -- Rise of the franks -- Attila and the Huns -- Justinian's campaigns -- Belisarius : brain versus brawn -- Emperor Maurice's defense against guerrilla tactics -- Emperor Leo's great work : Tactics -- Emperor Nikephoros Phokas : On Shadowing Warfare -- Warfare in the West -- The great Mongol invasion of Europe -- Vietnam's savior : Marshall Tran Hung Dao -- Edward I's pacification of Wales -- William Wallace and Robert Bruce -- The guerrilla leader Bertrand du Guesclin -- Machiavelli and military developments -- Turenne, Condé, Martinet : seventeenth-century tactics -- The great captains : Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, Marlborough -- Frederick the Great and guerrilla warfare -- Pasquali Paoli and his Corsican guerrillas -- North American Indian tactics -- American colonial army -- Braddock's defeat -- Colonel Henri Bouquet's reforms -- Rogers' scouts -- The rise of light infantry -- Southern colonies -- Clinton's shift in strategy -- Capture of Charleston -- "Tarleton's Quarters" -- Conflict with Cornwallis -- Cornwallis takes command -- Colonial guerrilla resistance -- Horatio Gates and the Continentals -- Guerrilla leaders : Marion, Sumter, Pickens -- Cornwallis' retreat -- Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse -- Greene's offensive -- England's colonial wars -- Indian guerrilla leaders : Sivaji and Tippu -- Wellesley's tactical changes -- The Vendée rebellion -- Hoche's couterguerrilla tactics : "overawing" versus "exasperating" -- Napoleon invades Sapin -- Wellington's early battles and use of guerrillas -- French excesses -- Marshall Bessières' testament -- Hofer's Tyrolean guerrillas fight the French -- The Pugachev rebellion -- Napolean's invasion of Russia -- The "conquest" of Vitebsk -- Kutuzov's strategy -- Denis Davydov and the partisans -- Prussia's levée en masse -- Clausewitz and Jomini on guerrilla war -- The French land in Algeria -- Abd-el-Kader leads the resistance -- Clauzel's strategy and defeat -- Valée's Great Wall -- Bugeaud's tactics -- Shamyl and the Caucasus -- Guerrilla warfare in Burma -- The Siminole war in Florida -- Effects of Industrial Revolution -- The American Civil War -- Forrest, Morgan and Mosby -- Sheridan's counter tactics -- Pope's policy -- The American army -- Brussels conference of 1874 -- Indian wars in America -- General Custer's disaster -- Upton's mission to Europe -- Influence of Prussian militarism on the American army -- Alfred Mahan and American expansionism -- Guerrilla wars in Cuba -- General Wyler's tactics -- McKinley and American intervention -- Spanish rule of the Philippines -- Rizal and the 1896 insurrection -- Aguinaldo's rise -- Dewey's victory at Manila Bay -- General Merritt's expeditionary force -- The treaty of Paris -- American victories in the Philippines -- Otis' optimism -- MacArthur's expedition -- Mr. Bass tells the truth -- MacArthur's pacification program -- The capture of Aguinaldo -- Taft established civil rule -- The Samar massacre -- General "Roaring Jake" Smith -- General Bell's "solution" -- Taft's counter solution -- Small war characteristics -- Importance of leadership -- British, Russian, and French failures -- Charles Callwell's classic work : Small Wars -- British operations in Burma -- Thibaw's guerrillas -- General White's tactics -- Sir Charles Crosthwaite's police -- Boer wars -- Buller -- De La Rey and Jan Smuts' commandos -- Kitchener's new tactics -- Hubery Lyautey -- Gallieni's tactics and Indochinese "pirates" -- Origin of the tache d'huile concept -- Gallieni's influence on Lyautey -- Pacification of Morocco -- The rebellions of Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos -- Santa Anna's dictatorship -- Guerrillas and the War of the Reforms -- Marshall Bazaine and Mexican guerrillas -- The Porfiriate and the 1910 revolution -- The guerrilla armies of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata -- Guerrillas in World War I -- Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa -- The Boer campaign against Lettow-Vorbeck -- Meinertzhagen's prediction -- Thomas Edward Lawrence -- The original Arab revolt -- The Irish Revolution -- Asquith reacts -- Rise of Sinn Fein -- Michael Collins and the Irish Republican Army -- The IRA and terrorist tactics -- The Royal Irish Constabulary -- The Black and Tans -- The Auxies -- Sir Nevil Macready's iron fist -- The Russian Revolution -- Bakunin and Marx -- Plekhanov and the liberals -- Nicholas' assassination -- Alexander the III and the okhrana -- Lenin's rise -- Mensheniks versus Bolsheviks -- Von Plehve's assassination -- Gapon's Bloody Sunday -- The October Manifesto and the reign of terror -- Bolshevik victory -- The Red Terror -- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk -- Trotsky build the Red army -- President Wilson's ambiguity -- Whites versus Reds -- Kolchak and Denikin's shortcomings -- The Communist International MAO AND REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE -- The rise of Manchus -- The Opium War -- The Taiping rebellion -- China's second war with England -- The Boxer rebellion -- Enter Sun Yat-sen -- The 1911 revolution -- Birth of the Kuomintang -- The Communists join the Kuomintang -- Enter Chiang Kai-shek -- Mao Tse-tung -- The Autumn Harvest uprising -- The Changsa defeat -- Falkenhausen's counterguerrilla tactics -- The long march to Shensi -- Mao's theory of "people's war" -- Mao's debt to Sun Tzu -- War against Japanese invader -- The Rif rebellion -- Spain and Morocco -- The Regulares and the Tercio -- Spanich pacification policy -- Abd-el-Krim -- Africanistas versus Abandonistas -- Primo de Rivera's "line" -- The Royal Air Force and pacification -- Air control versus ground control -- Sir Charles Gywnn's Imperial Policing -- The Moplah rebellion -- Guerrilla warfare in Santo Domingo -- America's marine tactics -- Guerrilla warfare in Nicaragua -- Augusto César Sandino -- The Spanish civil war -- Hemingway and the ideological element -- World War II -- German and Japanese victories -- Allied support of resistance movements -- Special Operations Executive (SEO) -- Office of Strategic Service (OSS) -- The British-American policy analyzed -- German occupation policy -- Growth of underground movements -- Resistance in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, and Norway -- French resistance in World War II -- De Gaulle and the BCRA -- Rise of the maquis -- SOE/OSS special units -- Guerrilla support of allied landings -- German invasion of Russia -- Ukranian apathy -- The Red army and guerrilla warfare -- Stalin calls for guerrilla resistance -- Germany's extermination policy -- Kaminski and Vlasov -- German intransigence -- Stalin's reorganization of partisan units -- The Germans occupy Yugoslavia -- The Balkan guerrilla tradition -- Scanderberg -- Heyduks and klefts -- Kosta Pečanac -- World War II : Chetniks versus Partisans -- Tito and the Yugoslav Communist Party -- Fitzroy Maclean reports -- German strength in Yugoslavia -- Tito and Yugoslav nationalism -- The Hauspartisanen -- Kosta's operations -- SOE's liaison problems -- German occupation of Greece -- Greek passivity to occupation -- First SOE mission -- Operation Animals -- The ELAS guerrillas -- Operation Noah's Ark -- Italian occupation of Albania -- Albanian resistance -- Enver Hoxha and the LNC -- The Davies mission -- Maclean's new mission -- Hoxha's guerrilla operations -- Japanese conquests -- Australian coastwatchers -- American marines on Guadacanal -- Japanese occupation of Timor -- Callinan fights guerrilla warfare -- Guerrilla resistance in the Philippines -- Kangleon's guerrillas on Leyte -- Japanese occupation policy -- Fertig's guerrillas on Mindanao -- Luis Taruc and the Huks -- Volckmann's guerrilla's on Luzon -- Host to MacArthur's landing -- Japanese occupation of Indonesia -- Dutch overlords -- Sporadic Indonesian resistance -- Sukarno and the PNI -- Japanese exploitation and bestiality -- Japanese occupation of Thailand -- The Japanese occupy Indochina -- The French conquest -- Fallacy of the "peace and security" argument -- Fallacy of the "non-profit" argument -- Failure of the French colonial policy -- Bao Dai and Ngo Dinh Diem -- The Yen Bay mutiny -- Enter Ho Chi Minh -- The Vietnamese Communist movement -- The Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao -- French Indochina -- Decoux's dictatorship -- President Roosevelt's anti-colonialism -- Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh -- Vo Nguyen Giap -- OSS support of Giap -- British and Chinese occupation of Vietnam -- Ho proclaims the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- Communist failure in the South -- Japanese conquest of Malaya -- The SOE in Malaya -- Origin of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) -- The Japanese invade Burma -- Stilwell versus British and Chinese -- Saya San's rebellion -- The Thakin movement -- Aung San's collaboration with the Japanese -- A modern major general : William Slim -- First Arkan offensive -- A modern major general (II) : Vinegar Joe Stilwell -- Orde Wingate and guerrilla warfare : Palestine and Ethiopia -- The first Chindit operation -- South-East Asia command -- Merrill's Marauders -- The Kachins -- Aung San deserts the Japanese -- The Karen guerrilla offensive -- China in World War II -- Chiang Kai-Shek's strategy -- Chiang and Roosevelt -- Stilwell versus Chiang and Claire Chennault -- The Miles mission -- SACO operations -- Patrick Hurley's mission -- The Dixie mission -- Wedemeyer takes over -- The deteriorating Nationalist position -- The Yalta Conference and the "Far Eastern Agreement" -- Hurley and Stalin -- Kennan's warning -- Truman's inaction -- The military position : Nationalists versus Reds -- Chiang occupies Manchuria -- The Marshall mission -- The Wedemeyer mission -- William Bullitt's accusations -- Lin Piao's "Seventh Offensive" -- Chiang loses Manchuria HO... 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HO CHI MINH -- Soviet political aims -- Western weaknesses -- The Cominform -- Allied occupation of Vietnam -- Viet Minh opposition -- Operation Léa -- General Revers' secret report -- Vietnamese nationalism -- Bao Dai's provisional government -- Truman's confusion -- The Élysée Agreements -- Acheson's dilemma -- Vo Nguyen Giap -- Viet Minh military organization -- La sale guere -- General de Lattre de Tassigny -- George Kennan's warning to keep Acheson -- Gullion and Blum dissent -- Congressman John Kennedy's position -- General Salan takes over -- Jean Letourneau -- Orde Wingate's ghost -- General Henri Navarre -- The Greek civil war -- Yugoslavia and Albania -- The Truman Doctrine -- Tito's defection -- The Huks -- Magsaysay takes over -- The New People's Army (NPA) -- President Ferdinand Marcos -- Nur Masouri's Moslem Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Mindanao -- The Bangsa Moro Army (BMA) -- Corazon Aquino's ineffectual government -- General Fidel Ramos takes over -- The Dutch take over -- Sukarno's problems -- The Palestine problem -- Jews versus Arabs -- The Zionist position -- Origin of Haganah -- David Raziel : the militant element -- Irgun and terrorism -- Stern and the FFI -- Menachem Begin -- UN intervention -- Postwar Malaya -- Chin Peng's Communist guerrilla army -- The Briggs Plan -- Templer takes over : the qualitative approach -- The Vietnam War -- Navarre's tactics -- Genesis of the domino theory -- Mark Clarke's recommendations -- General O'Daniel's mission -- Dien Bien Phu -- Vietnam : French and American estimates -- Viet Minh tactics -- General Ridgeway's warning -- Eisenhower backs down -- The Geneva Conference -- Dulles' defeat -- SEATO -- Ngo dinh Diem -- The Collins mission -- The Fishel mission -- The Montagnard problem -- ARVN -- MAAG's influence -- Ho Chi Minh's problems -- The National Liberation Front (NLF) -- The 1960 revolt -- The Mau Mau rebellion -- Rise of the KCA -- Enter Jomo Kenyatta -- General Erskine's military solution -- The Cyprus rebellion -- The question of enosis -- The 1931 rebellion -- Makarios and Grivas -- Origin of EOKA -- Harding's negotiations -- Grivas' critical analysis of British tactics -- The new Republic of Cyprus -- Fighting breaks out between Greeks and Turks -- The Turkish invasion -- The United Nations arranges a ceasefire -- Trouble in the Turkish Cypriot camp -- The Algerian crisis -- The 1945 riots -- Ahmed Ben Bella and the OS -- Belkacem Krim's guerrillas -- FLN emerges -- Soustelle's pacification strategy -- La guerre révolutionnaire -- The CNRA -- The battle of Algiers -- Jacques Massu and la guerre révolutionnaire -- The Morice Line -- Failure of the regroupment project -- The Constantine Plan -- French tactical adaption : the Challe Plan -- Origin of OAS -- Houari Boumedienne's coup -- Colonel Chadli Bendjedid's new government -- Rise of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) -- The Cuban Revolution -- The Platt Amendment -- Gerardo Machado and the strong-man tradition -- The Batista era -- Enter Fidel Castro -- The 26th of July Movement -- Che Guevara joins -- Sanctuary in Sierra Maestra -- The Matthews interview -- Ambassador Smith -- Pact of the Sierra -- Eisenhower's arms embargo -- Operation Summer fails -- John Kennedy inherits a war -- General Lansdale's estimate of the situation -- Lynden Johnson's report -- Hawks versus doves -- The Staley Plan -- The Taylor mission -- Roger Hilsman dissents -- The People's Revolutionary Party (PRP) -- Hanoi's influence in the south -- Agit-prop techniques -- Viet Cong setbacks -- Disaster at Ap Bac -- ARVN failures -- Buddhist revolts -- Pentagon and CIA influence -- Guerrilla warfare and American armed forces -- Special Forces (the Green Berets) -- General Griffith's warning -- Nolting's and Harkins' dream world -- Wishful thinking in Saigon -- The Hilsman-Forrestal report -- Pierre Salinger's warning -- McNamara's volte-face -- Enter President Lyndon Johnson -- Duong Van Minh's provisional government -- Nguyen Khanh -- Operation Plan 34A -- JCS hawks -- The Lodge plan : "carrot and stick" -- Seaborn's mission to Hanoi -- Hanoi hawks -- The Tonkin Gulf incident -- William Bundy's Congressional resolution -- General Taylor reports from Saigon -- Admiral Sharp's recommendations -- Douglas Pike's analysis -- Edward Lansdale's analysis -- The Bien Hoa attack -- John McNaughton's adjusted aims -- Rostow on power -- George Ball's doubts -- Tran Van Minh takes over -- McGeorge Bundy's memorandum -- The attack at Pleiku -- The White Paper -- Westmoreland demands more troops -- ARVN offensives -- The Thieu-Ky dictatorship -- Senator Fulbright's analysis -- Clifford and Mansfield's pessimism -- Johnson's intransigence -- Viet Cong setbacks -- American and ARVN gains -- Westmoreland's strategy -- Westmoreland's four wars -- American arms and equipment -- Army operations in the central highlands -- Westmoreland's "spoiling" tactics -- Operation Crazy Horse -- Marine operations in I corps area -- Walt's pacification program -- PAVN crosses the DMZ : Operation Hastings, Operation Prairie -- Operations in III corps area -- The "other war' : the honolulu conference -- Ky's revolutionary development program -- The Manila conference -- Failure of Operation Rolling Thunder (I) -- Shortcomings of attrition strategy and search-and-destroy tactics -- Russian and Chinese aid to the north -- The Jurassic dinosaur -- Operation Gibraltar -- Ia Drang -- the enemy learns -- Operation Attleboro -- Marshall and Hackworth's mission -- Operation of Paul Revere IV -- Colonels Henry Emerson and John Hayes define the tactical challenge -- Captain Miller's observations -- VC intelligence network -- Captain Jim Cooper's discovery -- The thoughts of James Gavin and George Kennan -- The secret thoughts of James Garvin and George Kennan -- The secret thoughts of Robert McNamara -- The hawks win again -- The February bombing halt -- Operation Cedar Falls -- Khe Sanh defended -- Ambassador Bunker and pacification -- South Vietnam's political progress -- John McNaughton : "... a feeling is widely and strongly held that 'the establishment' is out of its mind." -- MACV headquarters : "Disneyland east" -- Kromer's "indicators" -- Failure of land reform -- The Clifford mission -- Johnson's San Antonio offer -- Thwackum and Square -- The Pueblo fiasco -- The Tet offensive -- The Johnson-Westmoreland stand -- General Wheeler's report -- Dean Acheson -- Operation Phoenix : pros and cons -- Creighton Abrams takes command -- Government versus press : America -- the communications failure -- The Douhet theory -- Lessons of the Korean War -- Harrison Salisbury reports from the north -- Bombs and international dimplomacy -- Colonel David Hackworth's exrraordinary achievement -- Richard Nixon's promise -- Enter Henry Kissinger -- Le petit prince Norodom Sihanouk and Cambodian neutrality -- The Bowles mission -- Operation Menu -- Lieutneant colonel Herbert's changes -- Operation Dewey Canyon -- Operation Hamburger Hill -- ARVN's failure and Ben Het -- The hawks and the Hellespont -- Soedjatmoko speaks out -- Stalemate in Paris -- Kissinger's secret talks with Hanoi -- The Midway meeting -- The Clifford Plan -- Emergence of the PRG -- General Wheeler's stand -- The Nixon Doctrine -- CIA and special forces -- Averell Harriman out, Henry Cabot Lodge in -- Hi Chi Minh's death -- The Thompson report -- President Thieu's stand -- The Cambodian invasion -- ARVN in Cambodia -- PAVN's new threat -- Paris : peace plan versus peace plan -- The leaked CIA report -- Pacification in South Vietnam : fact versus fiction -- ARVN invades Laos : "the golden opportunity" -- Battlefied alchemy : disaster -- The Calley case -- Captain Daniels writes the President -- The Pentagon Papers -- Kissinger goes to China -- Yeoman Radford's busy camera -- Giap's spring offensive -- Henry Steele Commager's salvo -- Le Duc Tho's new peace plan -- Nixon and Watergate -- July 1976 : Premier Pham Van Dong's Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- Pol Pot's inhuman bloodbath in Kampuchea (Cambodia) -- Kampuchea and China versus Vietnam and Soviet Russia -- Kampuchea's new government : The People's Republic of Kampuchea -- Kampuchea's guerilla movements : Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan's Khmer Rouge ; Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) -- Hun Sen's government moves toward the U.S. and China -- The elections of May 1993 -- Sihanouk is crowned king -- Prince Ranariddh's government THEN UNTIL NOW : A SURVEY -- The Latin American problem : poverty, guerrillas, and drug barons -- Venezuela's short insurgency -- The Guatemala experience -- Raúl Sendic's Tupamoros of Uruguay -- The Samoza dictatorship -- Birth of the Sandista Liberation Front (FSLN) -- The CIA and the Contras -- Daniel Ortega's Sandanista's -- Irangate -- 1990 elections won by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- The hostage crisis -- Birth of the Brazilian insurgency -- Carlos Marighela's death -- Birth of the Argentinian insurgency -- Montoneros terrorist guerrilla defeat -- The Chilean scene : Allende and Pinochet -- Soviet Russia and Cuba end aid to the insurgents -- The background of revolution in El Salvador -- The National Coalition Party (PCN) in power -- José Napoleón Duarte's opposition party, the Democratic Nationalist Organization (ORDEN) -- War with Honduras -- Rise of the Communist guerrilla movement, the Fabundo Martí Popular Forces of Liberation (FPL) -- Formation of the Fabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) -- Rise of Roberto d'Aubuisson Arrieta's ultr-right wing party, the National Republican Alliance (ARENA) -- The drug equation -- Cartel king Pablo Escobar Gaviría's imprisonment and escape -- Peruvian politics -- Rise of Abimael Guzmán Reynoso's terrorist guerrilla party, Sendero Luminoso (SL), or Shining Path -- Peru's economic decline -- Ireland divided by treaty -- The "protestant ascendancy" in Ulster -- The 1969 riots : Catholics versus protestants -- Bloody Friday -- The Hume-Adams talks -- The Major-Reynolds peace plan -- The Basque legacy -- Rise of the ETA -- The 1947 partition of PAlestine -- The birth of Israel in 1948 -- Arab league armies invade Israel and are defeated -- The Suez Canal fiasco and Israeli gains -- The rise of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) -- The 1967 Six-Day war -- United Nations Resolution 242 -- 1973 invasion of Israel -- The Camp David accords -- Yassar Arafat's defeat -- Israel expels Islamic Hamas guerrillas -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethopia toppled -- The Dergue's Marxist-oriented urban and rural guerrilla opposition -- The Eritrean challenge -- War in Ogaden province -- Soviet and Cuban military presence -- Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime -- 1993 : independent Eritrea -- The divided Sudan : Moslem versus Christian -- The 1972 Addis Ababa accord -- Colonel Mohammed al-Numiery's rule -- John Garang's guerrilla army -- 1990 Sudan : "a human rights disaster" -- Lieutenant General Hussan al-Bashir's Islamic government -- Pope John Paul II protests -- The western (Spanish) Sahara partitioned between Mauritania and Morocco -- Decision contested by the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sequiet el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario) guerrillas -- Algerian-Libyan backed Polisarios force Mauritania from the war -- Reagan government backs Morocco -- The "Hassan Wall" -- Portuguese colonial rule in Africa -- Origin of the African National Council -- The Angoloan black uprising -- The rise of JonasSavimbi's NAtional Union for Complete Indepence of Angola (UNITA) -- The Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) -- War between Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Helden Roberto's Popular Union of Angola (UPA -- later FNLA), and Savimbi's UNITA -- Rise of black nationalism in South West Africa (renamed Namibia in 1968) -- Sam Nujoma's South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) opend guerrilla campaign -- Pretoria and Washington's military and financial aid to UNITA -- Namibia wins independence -- Mozambique's war against Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa -- Rhodesia becomes Marxist Zimbabwe -- Afghanistan old and new -- Prime Minister Mohammed Daud's rise and fall -- The Soviets install Nur Mohammed Taraki's Marxist government -- The jihad (holy war) declared by mujaheddin guerrillas -- Collapse of the Afghan army -- U.S. military aid to the mujaheddin -- The Mohammed Najibullah regime -- Mikhail Gorbachev pulls out -- Teh war continues : Gulbuddin Hakmatyar versus Ahmed Shah Massoud LENIN'S HERITAGE -- Darius bows to Scythian guerrillas -- Alexander the Great's tactics against the Asiatic Scythians -- Hannibal's victory over Alpine guerrillas -- Rome's colonial wars -- The war of Spartacus -- Caesar and Cassivellaunus -- The Roman pacification of Spain -- Scipio's campaign -- Cato's reply to the guerrillas -- The reforms of Gracchus and Marcellus -- The shame of Lucullus and Galba -- The rise and fall of brave Viriathus -- Scipio Aemilianus' reforms -- The extraordinary rebellion of Quintus Sertorius -- Hannibal's cunning -- Fabian strategy and tactics -- Warfare in early China -- The amazing Sun Tzu : The Art of War -- Quasi-guerrilla tactics of Goths and Huns -- Fridigern and the battle of Adrianople -- Political weaknesses of the barbarians -- Rise of the franks -- Attila and the Huns -- Justinian's campaigns -- Belisarius : brain versus brawn -- Emperor Maurice's defense against guerrilla tactics -- Emperor Leo's great work : Tactics -- Emperor Nikephoros Phokas : On Shadowing Warfare -- Warfare in the West -- The great Mongol invasion of Europe -- Vietnam's savior : Marshall Tran Hung Dao -- Edward I's pacification of Wales -- William Wallace and Robert Bruce -- The guerrilla leader Bertrand du Guesclin -- Machiavelli and military developments -- Turenne, Condé, Martinet : seventeenth-century tactics -- The great captains : Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, Marlborough -- Frederick the Great and guerrilla warfare -- Pasquali Paoli and his Corsican guerrillas -- North American Indian tactics -- American colonial army -- Braddock's defeat -- Colonel Henri Bouquet's reforms -- Rogers' scouts -- The rise of light infantry -- Southern colonies -- Clinton's shift in strategy -- Capture of Charleston -- "Tarleton's Quarters" -- Conflict with Cornwallis -- Cornwallis takes command -- Colonial guerrilla resistance -- Horatio Gates and the Continentals -- Guerrilla leaders : Marion, Sumter, Pickens -- Cornwallis' retreat -- Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse -- Greene's offensive -- England's colonial wars -- Indian guerrilla leaders : Sivaji and Tippu -- Wellesley's tactical changes -- The Vendée rebellion -- Hoche's couterguerrilla tactics : "overawing" versus "exasperating" -- Napoleon invades Sapin -- Wellington's early battles and use of guerrillas -- French excesses -- Marshall Bessières' testament -- Hofer's Tyrolean guerrillas fight the French -- The Pugachev rebellion -- Napolean's invasion of Russia -- The "conquest" of Vitebsk -- Kutuzov's strategy -- Denis Davydov and the partisans -- Prussia's levée en masse -- Clausewitz and Jomini on guerrilla war -- The French land in Algeria -- Abd-el-Kader leads the resistance -- Clauzel's strategy and defeat -- Valée's Great Wall -- Bugeaud's tactics -- Shamyl and the Caucasus -- Guerrilla warfare in Burma -- The Siminole war in Florida -- Effects of Industrial Revolution -- The American Civil War -- Forrest, Morgan and Mosby -- Sheridan's counter tactics -- Pope's policy -- The American army -- Brussels conference of 1874 -- Indian wars in America -- General Custer's disaster -- Upton's mission to Europe -- Influence of Prussian militarism on the American army -- Alfred Mahan and American expansionism -- Guerrilla wars in Cuba -- General Wyler's tactics -- McKinley and American intervention -- Spanish rule of the Philippines -- Rizal and the 1896 insurrection -- Aguinaldo's rise -- Dewey's victory at Manila Bay -- General Merritt's expeditionary force -- The treaty of Paris -- American victories in the Philippines -- Otis' optimism -- MacArthur's expedition -- Mr. Bass tells the truth -- MacArthur's pacification program -- The capture of Aguinaldo -- Taft established civil rule -- The Samar massacre -- General "Roaring Jake" Smith -- General Bell's "solution" -- Taft's counter solution -- Small war characteristics -- Importance of leadership -- British, Russian, and French failures -- Charles Callwell's classic work : Small Wars -- British operations in Burma -- Thibaw's guerrillas -- General White's tactics -- Sir Charles Crosthwaite's police -- Boer wars -- Buller -- De La Rey and Jan Smuts' commandos -- Kitchener's new tactics -- Hubery Lyautey -- Gallieni's tactics and Indochinese "pirates" -- Origin of the tache d'huile concept -- Gallieni's influence on Lyautey -- Pacification of Morocco -- The rebellions of Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos -- Santa Anna's dictatorship -- Guerrillas and the War of the Reforms -- Marshall Bazaine and Mexican guerrillas -- The Porfiriate and the 1910 revolution -- The guerrilla armies of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata -- Guerrillas in World War I -- Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa -- The Boer campaign against Lettow-Vorbeck -- Meinertzhagen's prediction -- Thomas Edward Lawrence -- The original Arab revolt -- The Irish Revolution -- Asquith reacts -- Rise of Sinn Fein -- Michael Collins and the Irish Republican Army -- The IRA and terrorist tactics -- The Royal Irish Constabulary -- The Black and Tans -- The Auxies -- Sir Nevil Macready's iron fist -- The Russian Revolution -- Bakunin and Marx -- Plekhanov and the liberals -- Nicholas' assassination -- Alexander the III and the okhrana -- Lenin's rise -- Mensheniks versus Bolsheviks -- Von Plehve's assassination -- Gapon's Bloody Sunday -- The October Manifesto and the reign of terror -- Bolshevik victory -- The Red Terror -- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk -- Trotsky build the Red army -- President Wilson's ambiguity -- Whites versus Reds -- Kolchak and Denikin's shortcomings -- The Communist International MAO AND REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE -- The rise of Manchus -- The Opium War -- The Taiping rebellion -- China's second war with England -- The Boxer rebellion -- Enter Sun Yat-sen -- The 1911 revolution -- Birth of the Kuomintang -- The Communists join the Kuomintang -- Enter Chiang Kai-shek -- Mao Tse-tung -- The Autumn Harvest uprising -- The Changsa defeat -- Falkenhausen's counterguerrilla tactics -- The long march to Shensi -- Mao's theory of "people's war" -- Mao's debt to Sun Tzu -- War against Japanese invader -- The Rif rebellion -- Spain and Morocco -- The Regulares and the Tercio -- Spanich pacification policy -- Abd-el-Krim -- Africanistas versus Abandonistas -- Primo de Rivera's "line" -- The Royal Air Force and pacification -- Air control versus ground control -- Sir Charles Gywnn's Imperial Policing -- The Moplah rebellion -- Guerrilla warfare in Santo Domingo -- America's marine tactics -- Guerrilla warfare in Nicaragua -- Augusto César Sandino -- The Spanish civil war -- Hemingway and the ideological element -- World War II -- German and Japanese victories -- Allied support of resistance movements -- Special Operations Executive (SEO) -- Office of Strategic Service (OSS) -- The British-American policy analyzed -- German occupation policy -- Growth of underground movements -- Resistance in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, and Norway -- French resistance in World War II -- De Gaulle and the BCRA -- Rise of the maquis -- SOE/OSS special units -- Guerrilla support of allied landings -- German invasion of Russia -- Ukranian apathy -- The Red army and guerrilla warfare -- Stalin calls for guerrilla resistance -- Germany's extermination policy -- Kaminski and Vlasov -- German intransigence -- Stalin's reorganization of partisan units -- The Germans occupy Yugoslavia -- The Balkan guerrilla tradition -- Scanderberg -- Heyduks and klefts -- Kosta Pečanac -- World War II : Chetniks versus Partisans -- Tito and the Yugoslav Communist Party -- Fitzroy Maclean reports -- German strength in Yugoslavia -- Tito and Yugoslav nationalism -- The Hauspartisanen -- Kosta's operations -- SOE's liaison problems -- German occupation of Greece -- Greek passivity to occupation -- First SOE mission -- Operation Animals -- The ELAS guerrillas -- Operation Noah's Ark -- Italian occupation of Albania -- Albanian resistance -- Enver Hoxha and the LNC -- The Davies mission -- Maclean's new mission -- Hoxha's guerrilla operations -- Japanese conquests -- Australian coastwatchers -- American marines on Guadacanal -- Japanese occupation of Timor -- Callinan fights guerrilla warfare -- Guerrilla resistance in the Philippines -- Kangleon's guerrillas on Leyte -- Japanese occupation policy -- Fertig's guerrillas on Mindanao -- Luis Taruc and the Huks -- Volckmann's guerrilla's on Luzon -- Host to MacArthur's landing -- Japanese occupation of Indonesia -- Dutch overlords -- Sporadic Indonesian resistance -- Sukarno and the PNI -- Japanese exploitation and bestiality -- Japanese occupation of Thailand -- The Japanese occupy Indochina -- The French conquest -- Fallacy of the "peace and security" argument -- Fallacy of the "non-profit" argument -- Failure of the French colonial policy -- Bao Dai and Ngo Dinh Diem -- The Yen Bay mutiny -- Enter Ho Chi Minh -- The Vietnamese Communist movement -- The Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao -- French Indochina -- Decoux's dictatorship -- President Roosevelt's anti-colonialism -- Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh -- Vo Nguyen Giap -- OSS support of Giap -- British and Chinese occupation of Vietnam -- Ho proclaims the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- Communist failure in the South -- Japanese conquest of Malaya -- The SOE in Malaya -- Origin of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) -- The Japanese invade Burma -- Stilwell versus British and Chinese -- Saya San's rebellion -- The Thakin movement -- Aung San's collaboration with the Japanese -- A modern major general : William Slim -- First Arkan offensive -- A modern major general (II) : Vinegar Joe Stilwell -- Orde Wingate and guerrilla warfare : Palestine and Ethiopia -- The first Chindit operation -- South-East Asia command -- Merrill's Marauders -- The Kachins -- Aung San deserts the Japanese -- The Karen guerrilla offensive -- China in World War II -- Chiang Kai-Shek's strategy -- Chiang and Roosevelt -- Stilwell versus Chiang and Claire Chennault -- The Miles mission -- SACO operations -- Patrick Hurley's mission -- The Dixie mission -- Wedemeyer takes over -- The deteriorating Nationalist position -- The Yalta Conference and the "Far Eastern Agreement" -- Hurley and Stalin -- Kennan's warning -- Truman's inaction -- The military position : Nationalists versus Reds -- Chiang occupies Manchuria -- The Marshall mission -- The Wedemeyer mission -- William Bullitt's accusations -- Lin Piao's "Seventh Offensive" -- Chiang loses Manchuria HO... 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HO CHI MINH -- Soviet political aims -- Western weaknesses -- The Cominform -- Allied occupation of Vietnam -- Viet Minh opposition -- Operation Léa -- General Revers' secret report -- Vietnamese nationalism -- Bao Dai's provisional government -- Truman's confusion -- The Élysée Agreements -- Acheson's dilemma -- Vo Nguyen Giap -- Viet Minh military organization -- La sale guere -- General de Lattre de Tassigny -- George Kennan's warning to keep Acheson -- Gullion and Blum dissent -- Congressman John Kennedy's position -- General Salan takes over -- Jean Letourneau -- Orde Wingate's ghost -- General Henri Navarre -- The Greek civil war -- Yugoslavia and Albania -- The Truman Doctrine -- Tito's defection -- The Huks -- Magsaysay takes over -- The New People's Army (NPA) -- President Ferdinand Marcos -- Nur Masouri's Moslem Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Mindanao -- The Bangsa Moro Army (BMA) -- Corazon Aquino's ineffectual government -- General Fidel Ramos takes over -- The 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corps area -- Walt's pacification program -- PAVN crosses the DMZ : Operation Hastings, Operation Prairie -- Operations in III corps area -- The "other war' : the honolulu conference -- Ky's revolutionary development program -- The Manila conference -- Failure of Operation Rolling Thunder (I) -- Shortcomings of attrition strategy and search-and-destroy tactics -- Russian and Chinese aid to the north -- The Jurassic dinosaur -- Operation Gibraltar -- Ia Drang -- the enemy learns -- Operation Attleboro -- Marshall and Hackworth's mission -- Operation of Paul Revere IV -- Colonels Henry Emerson and John Hayes define the tactical challenge -- Captain Miller's observations -- VC intelligence network -- Captain Jim Cooper's discovery -- The thoughts of James Gavin and George Kennan -- The secret thoughts of James Garvin and George Kennan -- The secret thoughts of Robert McNamara -- The hawks win again -- The February bombing halt -- Operation Cedar Falls -- Khe Sanh defended -- Ambassador Bunker and pacification -- South Vietnam's political progress -- John McNaughton : "... a feeling is widely and strongly held that 'the establishment' is out of its mind." -- MACV headquarters : "Disneyland east" -- Kromer's "indicators" -- Failure of land reform -- The Clifford mission -- Johnson's San Antonio offer -- Thwackum and Square -- The Pueblo fiasco -- The Tet offensive -- The Johnson-Westmoreland stand -- General Wheeler's report -- Dean Acheson -- Operation Phoenix : pros and cons -- Creighton Abrams takes command -- Government versus press : America -- the communications failure -- The Douhet theory -- Lessons of the Korean War -- Harrison Salisbury reports from the north -- Bombs and international dimplomacy -- Colonel David Hackworth's exrraordinary achievement -- Richard Nixon's promise -- Enter Henry Kissinger -- Le petit prince Norodom Sihanouk and Cambodian neutrality -- The Bowles mission -- Operation Menu -- Lieutneant colonel Herbert's changes -- Operation Dewey Canyon -- Operation Hamburger Hill -- ARVN's failure and Ben Het -- The hawks and the Hellespont -- Soedjatmoko speaks out -- Stalemate in Paris -- Kissinger's secret talks with Hanoi -- The Midway meeting -- The Clifford Plan -- Emergence of the PRG -- General Wheeler's stand -- The Nixon Doctrine -- CIA and special forces -- Averell Harriman out, Henry Cabot Lodge in -- Hi Chi Minh's death -- The Thompson report -- President Thieu's stand -- The Cambodian invasion -- ARVN in Cambodia -- PAVN's new threat -- Paris : peace plan versus peace plan -- The leaked CIA report -- Pacification in South Vietnam : fact versus fiction -- ARVN invades Laos : "the golden opportunity" -- Battlefied alchemy : disaster -- The Calley case -- Captain Daniels writes the President -- The Pentagon Papers -- Kissinger goes to China -- Yeoman Radford's busy camera -- Giap's spring offensive -- Henry Steele Commager's salvo -- Le Duc Tho's new peace plan -- Nixon and Watergate -- July 1976 : Premier Pham Van Dong's Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- Pol Pot's inhuman bloodbath in Kampuchea (Cambodia) -- Kampuchea and China versus Vietnam and Soviet Russia -- Kampuchea's new government : The People's Republic of Kampuchea -- Kampuchea's guerilla movements : Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan's Khmer Rouge ; Son Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) -- Hun Sen's government moves toward the U.S. and China -- The elections of May 1993 -- Sihanouk is crowned king -- Prince Ranariddh's government THEN UNTIL NOW : A SURVEY -- The Latin American problem : poverty, guerrillas, and drug barons -- Venezuela's short insurgency -- The Guatemala experience -- Raúl Sendic's Tupamoros of Uruguay -- The Samoza dictatorship -- Birth of the Sandista Liberation Front (FSLN) -- The CIA and the Contras -- Daniel Ortega's Sandanista's -- Irangate -- 1990 elections won by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- The hostage crisis -- Birth of the Brazilian insurgency -- Carlos Marighela's death -- Birth of the Argentinian insurgency -- Montoneros terrorist guerrilla defeat -- The Chilean scene : Allende and Pinochet -- Soviet Russia and Cuba end aid to the insurgents -- The background of revolution in El Salvador -- The National Coalition Party (PCN) in power -- José Napoleón Duarte's opposition party, the Democratic Nationalist Organization (ORDEN) -- War with Honduras -- Rise of the Communist guerrilla movement, the Fabundo Martí Popular Forces of Liberation (FPL) -- Formation of the Fabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) -- Rise of Roberto d'Aubuisson Arrieta's ultr-right wing party, the National Republican Alliance (ARENA) -- The drug equation -- Cartel king Pablo Escobar Gaviría's imprisonment and escape -- Peruvian politics -- Rise of Abimael Guzmán Reynoso's terrorist guerrilla party, Sendero Luminoso (SL), or Shining Path -- Peru's economic decline -- Ireland divided by treaty -- The "protestant ascendancy" in Ulster -- The 1969 riots : Catholics versus protestants -- Bloody Friday -- The Hume-Adams talks -- The Major-Reynolds peace plan -- The Basque legacy -- Rise of the ETA -- The 1947 partition of PAlestine -- The birth of Israel in 1948 -- Arab league armies invade Israel and are defeated -- The Suez Canal fiasco and Israeli gains -- The rise of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) -- The 1967 Six-Day war -- United Nations Resolution 242 -- 1973 invasion of Israel -- The Camp David accords -- Yassar Arafat's defeat -- Israel expels Islamic Hamas guerrillas -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethopia toppled -- The Dergue's Marxist-oriented urban and rural guerrilla opposition -- The Eritrean challenge -- War in Ogaden province -- Soviet and Cuban military presence -- Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime -- 1993 : independent Eritrea -- The divided Sudan : Moslem versus Christian -- The 1972 Addis Ababa accord -- Colonel Mohammed al-Numiery's rule -- John Garang's guerrilla army -- 1990 Sudan : "a human rights disaster" -- Lieutenant General Hussan al-Bashir's Islamic government -- Pope John Paul II protests -- The western (Spanish) Sahara partitioned between Mauritania and Morocco -- Decision contested by the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sequiet el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario) guerrillas -- Algerian-Libyan backed Polisarios force Mauritania from the war -- Reagan government backs Morocco -- The "Hassan Wall" -- Portuguese colonial rule in Africa -- Origin of the African National Council -- The Angoloan black uprising -- The rise of JonasSavimbi's NAtional Union for Complete Indepence of Angola (UNITA) -- The Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) -- War between Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Helden Roberto's Popular Union of Angola (UPA -- later FNLA), and Savimbi's UNITA -- Rise of black nationalism in South West Africa (renamed Namibia in 1968) -- Sam Nujoma's South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) opend guerrilla campaign -- Pretoria and Washington's military and financial aid to UNITA -- Namibia wins independence -- Mozambique's war against Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa -- Rhodesia becomes Marxist Zimbabwe -- Afghanistan old and new -- Prime Minister Mohammed Daud's rise and fall -- The Soviets install Nur Mohammed Taraki's Marxist government -- The jihad (holy war) declared by mujaheddin guerrillas -- Collapse of the Afghan army -- U.S. military aid to the mujaheddin -- The Mohammed Najibullah regime -- Mikhail Gorbachev pulls out -- Teh war continues : Gulbuddin Hakmatyar versus Ahmed Shah Massoud