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Why we've stopped winning wars

A book by Gérard Chaliand Translated by Marina Urquidi

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Table of Contents

  • Twenty Years ago
  • Foreword
  • Part I. Victory, a Western Art
    • Chapter 1. War of conquest
      • Asymmetric-warfare models
      • European colonial expansion
    • Chapter 2 – The West’s advantage
      • Factors of success
      • First-hand knowledge of the field and the adversary
      • Importance of the demographic factor
    • Chapter 3 – Colonization and “small wars”
      • The reappearance of guerrilla warfare
      • From guerrilla warfare to counterinsurgency
      • Great figures
        of the colonization era
      • What was the human toll?
  • Part II – The Reversal
    • Chapter 4 – The “clash of civilizations”
      • The oppressor’s values
      • Effects of the Great War
      • The turning point of the 1930s
      • Breaking the status quo
    • Chapter 5- the end of the colonial world
      • From guerrilla warfare to revolutionary warfare
      • The mobilizing ideology
      • The end of imperial Europe
      • The Vietnam War
    • Part III – the Western quagmire
      • Chapter 6 – The first war in Afghanistan.
        • Evolution of the situation in the Middle East
        • Soviet failure in Afghanistan
        • The first Gulf War (1991)
        • From September 11 to the punitive expedition in Afghanistan
    • Chapter 7 – The Iraq War
      • The plan to reshape the “Greater Middle East”
      • From the fall of Baghdad to the occupation
    • Chapter 8 – The Afghan deadlock
      • The Taliban comeback
      • The international coalition side
      • The 2007 reversal
      • What solutions?
    • Chapter 9 – The Syrian imbroglio
      • Beginnings of the civil war
      • ISIL’s intervention
  • In closing …
    • What are the short-term outlooks of this conflict?
  • A few references

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