Invisible Armies by Boot, Max -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Prologue: Baghdad Patrol, April 9, 2007 Book I: Barbarians at the Gate

1. Ambush at Beth-Horon 2. Classical Conflicts 3. Uncivilized Warfare 4. Akkad and the Origins of Insurgency 5. Catch Me If You Can 6. “Create a Desert” 7. Rome’s Downfall 8. An Eastern Way of War? 9. Nomads and Mandarins 10. The Guerrilla Paradox 11. The Tartan Rebellions 12. War by the Book

Book II: Liberty or Death

13. Irregulars in the Age of Reason 14. The American Hornets 15. War to the Knife 16. Black Spartacus 17. Greeks and Their Lovers 18. Hero of Two Worlds 19. Revolutionary Consequences

Book III: The Spreading Oil Spot

20. The Wars That Weren’t 21. The Skulking Way of War 22. The Winning of the West 23. The Winning of the East 24. Dark Defiles 25. Northwest Frontier 26. Mission Civilisatrice 27. Commandos 28. High Noon for Empire

Book IV: The Bomb Throwers

29. Suicide Knifers 30. John Brown’s Body 31. The Destruction of Reconstruction 32. Propaganda by the Deed 33. Hunting the Tsar 34. “An Uncontrollable Explosion” 35. Shinners and Peelers 36. The Terrorist Mind

Book V: The Sideshows

37. The Thirty Years’ War 38. The Evolution of an Archaeologist 39. The Regular Irregulars 40. Wingate’s Wars 41. Resistance and Collaboration 42. Assessing the “Supersoldiers”

Book VI: The End of Empire

43. The World after the War 44. The Rise of the Red Emperor 45. Adieu at Dien Bien Phu 46. “Convince or Coerce” 47. A Man and a Plan 48. “A Distinctly British Approach”?

Book VII: Radical Chic

49. Two Sides of the Coin 50. The Quiet American 51. Creating South Vietnam 52. The Other War 53. M-26-7 54. Foco or Loco? 55. The Children of ’68—and ’48 56. Arafat’s Odyssey 57. Left Out, or Rebels Without a Cause

Book VIII: God’s Killers

58. Fifty Days That Shook the World 59. Russia’s Vietnam 60. The A Team 61. The Terrorist Internationale 62. Carnage in Mesopotamia 63. Counterinsurgency Rediscovered 64. Down and Out?

Epilogue: Meeting in Marjah, October 23, 2011 Implications: Twelve Articles, or the Lessons of Five Thousand Years Appendix: The Invisible Armies Database Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations Also by Max Boot Praise for Invisible Armies Copyright