By Corwin Mendenhall

A vividly particular account of existence aboard U.S. submarines within the Pacific in the course of international conflict II.

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The result of my initial interest was The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002). As The Savage Wars of Peace was in its final stages, I happened to be going to my day job as an editor at the Wall Street Journal on the morning of September 11, 2001. On the Metro-North commuter train into New York City I heard ominous rumors that an airplane had struck the World Trade Center. I imagined a Cessna accidentally flying into one of the buildings. Curious to learn more, I proceeded downtown on what turned out to be the last subway train still running.

Guerrilla armies, which lack the organizational structure of regular forces, are often the reflection of one forceful personality such as Robert the Bruce, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Orde Wingate, or Mao Zedong. Likewise, the most successful guerrilla fighters—men such as Hubert Lyautey, Edward Lansdale, and David Petraeus—are often mavericks at odds with their own military establishments. ” As the saying has it, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. ”6 It is precisely because such terms are so hard to define that Invisible Armies covers both terrorists and guerrillas; leaving either one out would present a distorted picture.

COUNTERINSURGENCY REDISCOVERED David Petraeus and the Surge, 2007–2008 64. DOWN AND OUT? The Failures and Successes of the Global Islamist Insurgency 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 PICTURE SECTION COPYRIGHT ALSO BY MAX BOOT PROLOGUE BAGHDAD PATROL, APRIL 9, 2007 LIKE PREDATORS READY for the hunt, the paratroopers came out of their “hootches,” their quarters, as twilight began to fall, their tan desert boots crunching softly on the silvery gravel spread over the barren soil of their compound.

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