Max Boot. (2013). Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present. Liveright.

Max Boot. 2013. Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present. Liveright.

Max Boot, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present. Liveright, 2013.

Max Boot. Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present. Liveright, 2013.

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   • bioText: Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Book (Nonfiction)
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Foreign Policy
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection

"Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest... hardest form of war." —John Nagl, Wall Street Journal

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla
warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times best-selling author and military historian Max Boot traces guerrilla
warfare and terrorism from antiquity to the present, narrating nearly thirty centuries of unconventional military conflicts. Filled with dramatic analysis of strategy and tactics, as well as many memorable characters—from Italian nationalist Guiseppe Garibaldi to the "Quiet American," Edward Lansdale—Invisible Armies is "as readable as a novel" (Michael Korda, Daily Beast) and "a timely reminder to politicians and generals of the hard-earned lessons of history" (Economist).

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   • source: Mark Mazover;New York Times Book Review, Front Page Review
   • content: A sweeping panorama that ranges over a vast terrain... thoughtful, smart, fluent, with an eye for the good story.
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   • source: Steve Forbes;Forbes Magazine
   • content: [A] comprehensive history of guerrilla warfare, breezily written and chock-full of perceptive insights.... [Boot] has a great feel for details...a mighty impressive achievement, one that should be a bible for policymakers everywhere in the civilized world.
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   • source: Lucas Wittmann;The Daily Beast
   • content: The word "magisterial" is bandied about far too freely these days, but in the case of Max Boot's sweeping and deeply researched history of guerrilla warfare, it proves fair. Somewhere in the first third of Boot's book, you begin to realize that guerrilla wars (and terrorism and insurgencies) are the way we fight, while the formal set battles of, say, the Napoleonic wars are but an exception.
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   • source: Andrew Roberts;Commentary
   • content: For the historian and journalist Max Boot to use the phrase 'an epic history' in the subtitle of his own book implies a magnificent lack of modesty in his own capabilities. The work more than matches the hype.... This pathbreaking book should thus be on the reading list of every NATO officer hoping to defeat an insurgency.
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   • source: The Weekly Standard
   • content: There's no better guide to both the past and the future than Invisible Armies, the tour de force of a scholar as well as a man who's seen American adversaries and soldiers at work up close.
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   • source: Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
   • content: A landmark book about a perennial and important challenge: guerilla warfare.
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   • source: Walter Isaacson
   • content: Fascinating. . . . Beginning with the barbarians at the gates of the Roman Empire, a wonderful and valuable historic narrative filled with colorful characters.
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   • source: General (ret.) Jack Keane, former Army Vice Chi
   • content: The most definitive and comprehensive work to date on the dominant form of warfare of our times. A must read for scholars, military and government professionals and a fascinating journey for the general public.
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   • source: Ihsan Taylor;New York Times
   • content: Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Savage Wars of Peace, presents an astutely synthesized account of insurgency and counterinsurgency through the ages—from the Peloponnesian War to the post-Sept. 11 battlefields of today.
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    • source: Gerard DeGroot;The Washington Post
    • content: A magisterial overview of insurgency and counterinsurgency, peppered with fascinating personalities. The author counts 442 insurgencies since the American Revolution, 25.2 percent of which were successful.
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      Starred review from August 27, 2012
      A military historian and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Boot (The Savage Wars of Peace) presents a sweeping, well-written, and comprehensively documented history of guerilla war. For Boot, guerrilla warfare and terrorism are distinct but synergistically linked. Terrorism is the use of violence, primarily by nonstate actors, against noncombatants. Guerrilla, which means "little war," is the organized use of hit-and run tactics against governments. What they have in common is their use by fighters "too weak to employ conventional methods," although these unconventional methods may have higher prospects of success. Boot begins by tracing their roots, from prehistoric tribal war to the medieval grappling on the Anglo-Scottish frontier. He goes on to address terrorism and guerrilla warfare through the centuries and around the world, from medieval assassins to irregulars' operations during 19th century the liberal European revolutions between the 1770s and to the 1880s to guerrilla movements generated by imperialism, terrorism, from the medieval Assassins to the IRA, and guerrilla operations in the world wars. He concludes with an analysis of national liberation movements, recent Leftist revolutionary upheavals and Islamic terror. The result is a compelling narrative and perceptive analysis: a must read in today's world. Agent: Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu, Writers' Representatives.

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