disc 1. Afghanistan and the nature of modern war ; Nightmare scenarios of modern war ; The tools of modern warfare ; From world war to Cold War ; Europe's exit from colonial Asia ; China's civil war -- disc 2. The unfinished Korean War ; Britain's exit from Palestine, Malaya, and Kenya ; France's Vietnam War ; Insurgency and counterinsurgency ; The Arab-Israeli wars: victory without peace -- disc 3. India-Pakistan: the enduring rivalry ; The world war that never happened ; America's Vietnam War ; The Soviet war in Afghanistan ; Latin America's revolutionary wars ; The war for the Falklands -- disc 4. Africa's modern world war: Rwanda and Congo ; The Iraq-Iran war ; Desert Storm: the US versus Iraq ; Yugoslavia's civil wars ; A new Russian Empire? ; Iraq and ISIS in the war on terror.