War nerd

"Part war commentator, part angry humorist, War Nerd Gary Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes - Liberian generals, Dick Cheney, U.N. peacekeepers, the neo-cons. and the massive incompetence of military powers. A provocative free thinker, he finds much to admire in the most unlikely places, and not always for the most pacifistic reasons: the Tamil Tigers, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Danes of 1,000 years ago, and so on, across the globe and through the centuries. Crude, scatological, yet deeply informed, Brecher provides a radically different, completely unvarnished perspective on the nature of warfare."--book jacket.

Part I: The Americas -- Columbia: A Hundred Years of Slaughtertude -- Shining Path-the Comeback Tour -- The Big Hate -- Haiti 2: the Rerun -- Massacres Paid Your Mortgage, Dude -- Mexican Military Might! -- Celaya: Machismo vs. Overlapping Fields of Fire -- America's Problem: No Dong -- Victor Hanson: Portrait of an American Traitor -- American Nationalism: Extinct since Desert One -- Part II: Africa -- Less is Mauritania: You Want Anarchy? -- It's D-Day in Zalambessa! -- Biafra: Killer Cessnas and Crazy Swedes -- Onward Christian Soldiers -- Algeria: The Psychos Will Inherit the Earth -- The Congo: War without Battles -- Please Don't Eat the Pygmies -- Qadafi: Buckles, Size XXXL -- Burundi: Heightism Rears Its Ugly Head -- Darfur: A Whole New Hell -- Togo's Lo-Cal Coup -- Trading Places: Liberia's Pompous Slaves.

Part III: Europe -- The French -- Spain vs. Morocco: The Muppets Do Iwo Jima -- Corsica: Beware of Scooters -- Glory to the Turks! -- Why Can't I Enjoy the Eastern Front? -- Nerf War and Real War: IRA vs. Al Qaeda -- Arise, Ye Danes! -- Part IV: The Middle East -- Monster Trucks in Ramallah -- Syria: Plenty of Nuthin' -- Afghanistan: What Went Right? -- Afghanistan: Let…