Dear Teri - you appear to have misread.

1. Mau Mau. As I said, firepower won.
2. Malaya - exception to the rule - Templer a military genius. Have you read the book?
3. Oman and Borneo - not the same thing
4. Vietnam - firepower lost.
5. Ireland - don't be frigging stupid. McGuinness is one of the biggest liars in politics and was an unacknowledged IRA member. He would of course pretend that the IRA were brought to the negotiating table. It was a ploy to make sure they got(as they did) their way. The fact of the matter is that the British who controlled Ireland from about 1600 to 1922 were thereafter run out, despite superior armaments (and some of the assassins with the highest close combat kill ratios in the world - one of whom has long been a close friend of mine - 252 hand-to-hand kills), by guerillas.
6. Afghanistan - the UK in the 19th century and the Russians in the 20th had considerably superior armaments to the Afghans. They lost.
7. Custer - rifles against bows and arrows. He lost.