America's Dirty Wars: Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror
Cambridge University Press, 4/28/2014
EAN 9781107003132, ISBN10: 110700313X
Hardcover, 598 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
Language: English
This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.
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. Ramón 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.