Terrence G Peterson’s Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency is a deeply researched and strikingly lucid account of how one colonial war reshaped the meaning of ...

The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight. By Roger Cohen ...

Biplanes and bandits -- Colonial air control -- The Greek civil war and the Philippine anti-Huk campaign -- The French colonial wars, 1946-1962 -- The British colonial wars, 1945-1975 -- Airpower in ...