Show 954 Max Boot, Invisible Armies: An Epic History Of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.
Max Boot, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, presented his new book, "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present" at IPI on February 7th, 2013.
The event was moderated by IPI Managing Director, François Carrel-Billiard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rB4TiwWrs
Overview
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz's On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world--when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies--Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today. Relying on a diverse cast of unforgettable characters--not only Mao and Che but also the legendary Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi, the archaeologist-turned–military commander T. E. Lawrence, and the "Quiet American" Edward Lansdale, among others--Boot explodes everything we thought we knew about unconventional combat. The result is both an enthralling read and our most important work on nontraditional warfare.
Visit the author's website, maxboot.net.
