Index, ill, p.346.non-fictionn The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen takes us on the ground to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the global challenge (the "War on Terrorism") and small wars across the world: Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Thailand, East Timor, and Pakistan. He explains that today's conflicts are a complex hybrid of contrasting trends: local social networks and worldwide movements; traditional and postmodern culture; local insurgencies seeking autonomy and a broader terrorist campaign. He warns that the United States has tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thereby enormously complicating our challenges. The West has continually misidentified insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances - "accidental guerrillas" - as members of a unified worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary.guerrilla warfare, insurgencies

Bib, ill, maps, p.216.This book introduces the reader to an unknown ally of the Second World War. Few people remember that Mexico, like Brazil, took an active part in that conflict. This volume covers Mexican participation in the Second World War for the first time using photos, documents and testimony from official and personal archives.world war 1939-1945 - aerial operations, mexico - aviation

How close were we to full-scale war in Vietnam when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency in 1963? What course might Kennedy have followed had he not been assassinated?vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - united states, united states - foreign relations - vietnam, president j f kennedy, president lyndon johnson, bay of pigs

The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV or the Team) was the first Australian unit committed to Vietnam and the last to withdrawn. vietnam - aneaudio, cdotes, vietnamese conflict , 1961-1975 - aneaudio, cdotes, australian army training team vietnam (aattv), the united states of america army meritorious unit citation, the republic of vietnam unit citation, vic pennington

The path of America's slow, gradual, and then steadily mounting involvement in Vietnam has never been fully explored.A report to the center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- united states, united states -- foreign relations -- vietnam

The Tet Offensive is a lucid and authoritative reexamination of a key momemnt in the Vietnam War.tet offensive, 1968, 1961-1975 - public opinion, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - united states

In the author's words; "In late 1968 there was a 'disturbance' as the military puts it, in the Marine Corps brig in Da Nang, Vietnam.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - fiction, united states - marine corps, da nang

Intellignet and powerful, A Time of War could well be the big book about Vietnam.war stories, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - fiction

Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees a nation or an era.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- veterans - fiction, deserters, military - fiction

"Don't forget your cotton underwear, girls!" With little more than this sage advice, a total of 43 Australian Army nursing sisters were sent to Vietnam between April 1967 and November 1971.military nursing - australia - aneaudio, military nursing - vietnam - aneaudio, 1961-1975 - medical care - aneaudio, cdotes, vietnam conflict, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, australian

The Sorrow of War vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam war to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - fiction

fictionThe author served in the Vietnam conflict and has drawn on his knowledge and experience to present this powerful story of two young men, one militant and aggressive, the other basically a pacifist, who are conscripted and sent to fight on the jungle.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- fiction, conscription

The author served in the Vietnam conflict and has drawn on his knowledge and experience to present this powerful story of two young men, one militant and aggressive, the other basically a pacifist, who are conscripted and sent to fight on the jungle.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- fiction, conscription

Over the past 100 years Australian men and women have been prepared to answer the call in time of war or conflict.preservation of materials, department of veterans affairs (dva)

The Vietnam War differed vastly from any conflict the U.S. has ever experienced.vietnam war - 1961-1975, operation phoenix, operation menu, the raid at son tay

In World War 2 the unofficial title 'Wolfpack; belonged to the 56th Fighter Group assigned to the 8th Air Force in England. 1961-1975 -- regimental histories, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - aerial operations - american

Yet even now, few Australians know all the facts underlying their government's decision to become involved in the Vietnam conflict.vietnamese conflict , 1961-1975 - australia

This book , although indispensable to future historians, will prove to be agonizing reading to all those who believe that Vietnam was a war that could - and should - have been won.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- united states

For many years it was widely accepted that American political and diplomatic pressure was the reason for Australia's entry into the Vietnam War. However, top secret documents from the period indicate that: Australia had volunteered the use ofcombat troops some time before the decision was announced in April 1965.vietnamese conflict , 1961-1975 - australia, australian government

When American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixo's troubled presidency. 1961- 1975 - campaigns - cambodia, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - united states, general creighton abrams, president nixon, cambodia

No American can know too much about the Vietnam War and its effects on our culture.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - united states

Mark Taylor offers an interdisciplinary approact to the Vietnam War - a popular but complex sugject that has been discussed in differing ways by historians. 1961-1975 -- historiography, vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- motion pictures and the war, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- literature and the conflict, hue, my lai massacre, battle of khe sanh

For as long as the Vietnamese people fought against foreign enemies, women were a vital part of that struggle. The victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu is said to have involved hundreds of thousands of women, and many of the names in Viet Cong unit rosters were female. 1961-1975 - women - interviews, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- personal narratives, vietnamese, ho chi minh, viet cong, hanoi

The reporting from Saigon may, at times, leave a good deal to be desired, but at its worst has the virtur of being on the spot.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- atrocities, vietnamese conflict , 1961- 1975 - atrocities, saigon

Newspaper style journal of twenty pages given over to articles, opinion pieces and coverage of the events at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.non-fictioneureka stockade, ballarat, labour history, bi-centenary

The Vietnam War still haunts Americans. It colors perception of contemporary foreign policy, give rise to lawsuits, fills novels and films, and rages on in the nightmare of many of its veterans.vietnamese conflict, 1963-1975 - united states - addresses, essays, lectures.

A searing chronicle of wartime experiences. Even the Women Must Fight probes the cultural legacy of North Vietnam's American War. Unflinching in its portrayal of hardship, valor, and personal sacrifice, this wrenching account is nothing short of a revelation, banishing in one bold strole the familiar image of Vietnamese women as passive onlookers, war brides, prostitutes, or helpless refugees.vietnamese conflict , 1961-1975 - women - interviews, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, north vietnamese, vietnamese women

Thirty years have elapsed since the end of the Vietnam War (30 April 1975). However, those who were involved in the war, either directly or indirectly still sense its physical and psychological impacts.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- personal narratives, north vietnamese, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- campaigns