Table of Contents

1: World-Scale Failure and Success; 1: The First Two Franco-German Wars (1870-1914); 2: Postwar Disasters; 3: The Third War (1939-1945); 4: MacArthur's Japanese Legacy; 2: Post-Colonial Conflicts; 5: France's Defeat in Vietnam (1945-1954); 6: The Algerian Disaster (1945-1962); 7: Britain's Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); 8: America's Defeat in Vietnam (1961-1975); 9: The India-Pakistan Antagonism; 3: Moscow's Afghan Obsession; 10: The Tempting Country; 11: The Fatal War (1980-1989); 12: Soviet Methods; 13: The Rise of the Taliban (1995-1996); 14: Collapse of the Soviet Empire (1989-1990); 4: Three Minimal Wars; 15: The Suez Fiasco (1956); 16: Before and After the Six-Day War (1967); 17: The Falklands Case (1982); 5: Tyrant Wars; 18: Saddam Hussein's First War (1980); 19: Lessons of the Second War (1990); 20: Lessons of Kosovo (1998-); 6: Looming Threats; 21: The Chinese Threat (Part I); 22: The Chinese Threat (Part II); 23: The North Korean Threat

About the Author

Brian Crozier

Reviews

-How fine to have this concise and authoritative book on the great political events of a century... Only Brian Crozier could have done this, and no one could have done it better.. It will rest in everyone's reference library..- --William F. Buckley, National Review

"How fine to have this concise and authoritative book on the great political events of a century... Only Brian Crozier could have done this, and no one could have done it better.. It will rest in everyone's reference library.." --William F. Buckley, National Review