America's Dirty Wars : Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Irregular warfare 101; Part I. The American Revolution to Chasing Sandino, 1776?1930s: 3. The American Revolution; 4. Confederates and Indians; 5. Intermezzo: the Boer War; 6. America, Aguinaldo, and the Philippines, 1898; 7. Chasing Villa, 1916; 8. A cold winter in Siberia; 9. The Banana Wars, 1898?1930s; 10. Intermezzo: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, 1916?18; 11. Chasing Sandino, 1927?32; Part II. The Cold War, 1940s?1989: 12. Cold War counterinsurgencies; 13. Intermezzo: Mao Zedong; 14. Fighting communism in Greece; 15. Intermezzo: France in Algeria, 1954?62; 16. Intermezzo: David Galula; 17. Intermezzo: Malaya emergency, 1948?60; 18. Ramon Magsaysay and the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines, 1946?56; 19. Vietnam; Part III. Latin America and the Cold War, 1950s?1980s: 20. From Guatemala, 1954, to Cuba and the Bay of Pigs, 1961; 21. Guatemala, post-1963; 22. Cuba, post-1963; 23. Intermezzo: Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare; 24. Carter, Reagan, and the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, 1979?90; 25. El Salvador, 1979?92; Part IV. Post?Cold War, 1990s?2000s: 26. Dirty wars after the Cold War; 27. Colombia; 28. Iraq; 29. Intermezzo: the counterinsurgency field manual and postmodern insurgencies; 30. Post-9/11 COIN in the Philippines; 31. Intermezzo: Afghanistan, graveyard of empires; 32. The longest war: America in Afghanistan; 33. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi, 2011; 34. Intermezzo: JSOC raids and drone strikes; 35. Conclusion.