The wind of revolution ; Popular will as the key to strategy ; The confrontation of the haves and the have-nots ; Fallacies of counterinsurgency ; Guerrilla war as an extension of politics ; Cracks in the armor of the modern state -- The war of the flea ; Political and military objectives ; Creating "the climate of collapse" ; Organization of insurgent forces ; Guevara on guerrilla war : the base -- Inception and evolution of an insurgency ; Transition to civil war ; Alternative solutions ; The Cuban example -- Protracted war ; Popular forces versus regular armies ; The guerrilla as a missionary ; Mao Tse-tung on the war of the flea ; The lessons of China -- Colonial war and the French experience ; Strategy tactics of Vo Nguyen Giap ; How the Vietminh won in Indochina -- The political character of the Second Indochina War ; The American role ; Expansion of the war ; The outlook -- Wars of national liberation and their cost ; The Irish "troubles" ands the role of the Black and Tans ; Terrorism in Israel ; Rebellion in North Africa -- General Grivas on guerrilla war in Cyprus ; The political uses of terrorism ; Errors of British strategy -- Failures in the war of the flea ; Magsaysay and the Huks in the Philippines ; The price of British victory in Malaya ; Why the communists lost in Greece -- Sun Tzu on The art of war ; Principles of guerrilla strategy and tactics ; Terrain as a determining factor ; Guerrilla war in urban areas ; The character of the guerrilla -- Guerrilla movements in the Third World ; The revolutionary base ; Outlook for the United States ; Proposals for a new American foreign policy in Latin America.