ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Afghanistan where the bringing together of the two narratives of warfare is considered chronologically, before focusing on 'Third World conflict' that did not so directly involve the major powers. The resulting warfare, most of which takes a guerrilla and/or terrorist character on the part of the rebels, is asymmetrical. Yet, there was sometimes an important overlap with the issues centred on Western interventionism. To indicate this overlap, the case of Afghanistan is considered here. Afghanistan was an atypical case because of the degree of external intervention As a reminder of the changing geography of concern in the early twenty-first century, Angola, in contrast, was no longer at the forefront of international attention and confrontation, and the intervention of foreign forces had ceased. Ethnic rivalry played a role in internal conflict in many other African states, although often without attracting much international attention, for example in northern Mali in 2004.
