Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win

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175 Index Index Index Index Index Abrams, Creighton, 122 Afghanistan, 110. See also Soviet-Afghan War Aguinaldo rebellion, 9, 57–58 Akhromev, Sergei, 54 Algerian War, 17, 57–62 Algiers, battle of, 59 al-Maliki, Nuri, 92, 102 al Qaeda, 21, 69, 73 al-Sadr, Muqtada, 69 al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, x, 69–70, 73, 77– 78, 92 al-Zawahiri, Ayman, x, 21 American Civil War, 64–66 American Revolution: external assistance and, 25–34; political will in, 3–4; strategy in, 13; and Vietnam War, 46–47 American way of war, x, 103–15, 117–30; characteristics of, 104–7 Amherst, Jeffrey, 33 anonymity, 13–14 Antietam, battle of, 65–66 antiwar movements, strategy on, 7–8, 20 Armée de Libération Nationale (ALN), 58–60 Army, U.S., and counterinsurgency, 117–30 Arreguin-Toft, Ivan: on counterinsurgency, 119; on external assistance, 15, 23, 133; on Soviet-Afghan War, 55–56; on strategy, 11–15; on Vietnam, 91–92 asymmetry, ix–x; of political will, 3 attrition, 11, 13, 121–22 Aylwin-Foster, Nigel, 128–29 Baath party, 68, 77 barbarism, 17–18; in Algerian War, 60; definition of, 11; in Iraq, 78; Merom on, 16; in Soviet-Afghan War, 55; in Spanish guerrilla, 36 Beckett, Ian F., 118 Berger, Samuel, 109, 113 Betts, Richard K., 5–6, 97 Biddle, Stephen, 91 bin Laden, Osama, 21, 69–70 blitzkrieg, 11 body count strategy, 81 Boer War, 9, 14, 57–58 Bonaparte, Joseph, 34 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 34–35, 37 Boot, Max, 103 Britain: and American Revolution, 25–34; and Boers, 9, 14, 57–58; and Malayan Emergency, 9, 57, 62–64, 123 Brown Bess muskets, 28 Bui Tin, 20 Burgoyne, John, 26 Burke, Edmund, 33 Burnside, Ambrose, 65 Bush, George H. W., 127, 132 Bush, George W., 69, 93–94, 102 Buttinger, Joseph, 84 Callwell, E. H., ix INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX INDEX 176 Cao Van Vien, 84 Cassidy, Robert, 111–12 casualties. See costs Catholic Church, and Spanish guerrilla, 36 Chiang Kai-shek, 38, 40 China: and French-Indochina War, 44; and Vietnam War, 48–51 Chinese Communist revolution: external assistance and, 38–44; versus Iraqi insurgency , 69–70 Clausewitz, Carl von: Gray on, 114; on insurgencies, 34–35; on political will, 1–2; on politics, 107; on strength, viii, 131; Summers on, 123–24 clear-and-hold strategy, in Iraq, 81 Clinton, Henry, 29 Clinton, William J., 136 communication: inAmerican Revolution, 29; in Spanish guerrilla, 36 Cornwallis, Charles, 25 corruption, in Vietnam, 84–87, 122 cost tolerance: American way of war and, 107; asymmetry in, 5–6, 8; democracies and, 134–35; United States and, 5–6, 17, 97, 135–37 costs: in American Revolution, 32; in Iraq, 18–19, 76–77, 97–98, 102; in Spanish guerrilla, 37; in Vietnam, 96–97 counterinsurgency: in Algerian War, 61–62; elements of, 118–19; as small war, ix; United States and, 104, 109, 117–30 Crane, Conrad C., 88–89, 93 Cuba, Batista government in, 64 culture, American way of war and, 105 Daniels, Mitch, 98 David, biblical, ix de Gaulle, Charles, 61 Deane, Silas, 26 deception, 13 Decker, George, 121 democracies: and Goliath defeats, 15–22, 134–35; suicide attacks and, 19–20; United States and, 79 Dien Bien Phu, 44–46 direct-attack strategies, 11 direct-defense strategies, 11–12 Drew, Dennis, 46–47 Duiker, William, 52–53, 87 Echevarria, Antulio, 112 Eichenberg, Richard C., 17 Elting, John R., 36 expeditionary forces, 10 external assistance, 23–66; and American Revolution, 25–34; Arreguin-Toft on, 15; and Chinese Communist revolution, 38–44; and French-Indochina War, 44– 46; importance of, 57, 133–34; and Iraqi insurgency, 71–74; and SovietAfghan War, 53–57; and Spanish guerrilla, 34–37; types of, 24; and Vietnam War, 23, 46–53 Feaver, Peter D., 17 firepower, American way of war and, 105–6 force, use of, Weinberger-Powell doctrine on, 125–27 Fox, Charles, 33 France: andAlgeria, 17, 57–62; andAmerican Revolution, 25–34; and Spanish guerrilla, 34–37; and Vietnam, 87 Franks, Tommy, 103 Freedman, Lawrence, 109–10, 115, 118–19 French-Indochina War, external assistance and, 44–46 Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), 58–62 Fukuyama, Francis, 79, 110–11 Gates, David, 37 Gates, Robert, 102 Gelpi, Christopher, 17 George III, king of Great Britain, 32–33 Germain, George, 29, 32 Goliath, biblical, ix Goliath defeats, vii–xii, 131–38; causes of, 1–22; history of, vii–viii; prevalence of, 8, 132 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 15, 54 Gordon...