Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Americans and Guerrilla Insurgency -- The Nature of the Present Study -- 1. American Guerrillas: The War of Independence -- How the War Came About -- Where Was the British Victory? -- The Disunited Kingdom -- Strategic America -- Weakness in the Navy -- Weakness in the Army -- The Puzzle of Supply -- British Options -- On to New York! -- A French Alliance -- On to the Carolinas! -- The Loyalist Mirage -- The Invasion of the Carolinas -- Guerrilla War -- The Swamp Fox -- The Gamecock -- On to Yorktown -- Reflection -- 2. Confederate Guerrillas: The War of Secession -- Mosby in Virginia -- Mosby's Men -- Mosby's Confederate Critics -- Quantrill in Missouri -- The Lawrence Raid -- Quantrill and the Confederacy -- The Agony of Missouri -- "A Nasty War" -- The Engulfing Flames -- Society Disintegrates -- The Absent Guerrilla War -- Opposition to Secession -- The Unexpected War -- Union Resources -- Apparent Southern Advantages -- Contrasting Strategies -- Conscription -- Requisitions -- Desertion -- Confederate Disunity -- Slavery: From Cornerstone to Millstone -- The True Price of Slavery -- An Army of Slaves -- "If Slaves Make Good Soldiers" -- Marching through Georgia -- With Malice toward None:Lincoln and the Politics of Victory -- The Prospects for Guerrilla Resistance -- The Weariness of the South -- Reflection -- 3. The Philippine War: Forgotten Victory -- The Archipelago -- The Americans Arrive -- Insurgency -- A Guerrilla Conflict -- War Crimes -- The Americans Attract Support -- The Presidential Election of 1900 -- The End in Sight -- An Authentic Victory over Guerrillas -- Winning the Peace -- The Moro War -- Afterward -- 4. Nicaragua: A Training Ground -- The United States and Nicaragua -- The Guardia -- Sandino -- Lessons -- Afterword.

5. Greece: Civil War into Cold War -- A Poor and Turbulent Land -- The Communist Party -- The National Liberation Front -- The Battle for Athens -- The Parliamentary Setting -- Renewed War -- Who Were the Insurgents? -- The Greek Army -- The Truman Doctrine -- American Aid -- Greek Politics as Usual -- American Troops to Greece? -- The Growth of the National Army -- The Communists and the People -- Adopting Conventional Tactics -- Tito Closes the Border -- Finale -- Learning from the Greek War -- Foreign Help for the Greek Government -- Abandoning Guerrilla Tactics -- Losing the Yugoslav Sanctuary -- Alienating the Peasantry -- 6. Back to the Philippines: The Huks -- The Japanese Occupation -- The Huks Gain Ground -- Ramon Magsaysay Defeats the Huks -- Magsaysay Becomes President -- A Closer Look at the Huks -- The Question of American Troops -- Reflection -- 7. Vietnam: A Case of Multiple Pathologies -- The Enemy -- The Japanese Contribution -- The Politics of Murder -- The French War -- Ngo Dinh Diem -- The South Vietnamese Army -- The Question of Desertion -- South Vietnamese Casualties -- The Territorial Forces -- Vietnamization -- Third-Country Forces -- The Great Tet Offensive -- The American News Media -- American Mistakes -- Americanizing the War -- Bombing the North -- The Attrition "Strategy" -- Permanent Invasion: Laos -- Popular Opposition to Communist Conquest -- The United States Abandons Its Allies -- The Fall -- To Lose a War -- A Different Strategy -- A New Geography -- Some Objections -- 8. El Salvador: A Long War in a Small Country -- The FMLN -- The Kissinger Commission Report -- Slowly Creating a Democracy -- Neither Vietnam nor Cuba -- A Different Perspective -- Insurgent Weaknesses -- Resistance to Revolution -- 9. Afghanistan: Cracking the Red Empire -- The Far Country -- The Communist Regime -- The Invasion.

Why the Soviets Invaded -- A People in Arms -- Assets of the Resistance -- The PDPA Regime -- The PDPA Army -- The Background of the Soviet Strategy -- The Soviet War -- Strategy and Reality -- The Destruction of Afghan Society -- The War Rages On -- The Outside World -- The Americans and the War -- The Soviet Departure -- The Elements of Stalemate -- What the War Meant -- 10. Implications and Provocations -- The American Revolution -- The American Civil War -- The Philippines: 1898 -- Nicaragua -- Greece -- The Philippines: The Huk War -- El Salvador -- Afghanistan -- Vietnam: The Great Exception -- The Past and the Future -- Real Victory -- Limiting Bloodshed -- A Peaceful Road to Change -- The Centrality of Rectitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.