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Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: The Changing Face of Violent Conflict 3
The Revolutions of 1989: Causes and Effects 4
Impact of the End of the Cold War 9
Third World Conflict without an East-West Overlay 13
South-South and North-South Conflict and the New World Order 19
Conclusion 23
Chapter 2: Second Tier Problems in a First Tier-Dominated World 25
The Crisis of Legitimacy and Authority 27
Economic and Social Causes of Conflict 33
Patterns of Second Tier Conflict 44
Conclusion 55
Chapter 3: The Venerable Foe: Insurgency 57
The Roots of Insurgency: Underlying Causes 59
The "Poor Man's War": A Historical Perspective 66
Mobile-Guerrilla Warfare 72
Insurgency as Conventional War Inverted 77
Conclusion 83
Chapter 4: The Intractable Nemesis: Counterinsurgency 86
The Basic Difficulty: "There Is a Problem Here" 88
The Political Dimension: Centers of Gravity and Hearts and Minds 94
The Military Dimension: Shooting the Symptoms
and the Brushfire Corollary 		100
The American Approach to Counterinsurgency 105
Conclusion 109

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Publication Information: Book Title: Distant Thunder: Patterns of Conflict in the Developing World. Contributors: Donald M. Snow - author. Publisher: M. E. Sharpe. Place of Publication: Armonk, NY. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: v.
    
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