Invisible Armies on NPR's Morning Edition

Giving Guerrillas the Boot

Time.com's Battleground

By Mark Thompson

January 14, 2013

Hawkish historian Max Boot is out with a book on insurgency. In Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, the emphasis is on the epic – the tome weighs in at 750 pages. It’ll be released Tuesday, Jan. 15.

Seeing as the campaigns in both Afghanistan and Iraq have been more irregular than regular, perhaps it’s an apt time for a primer on the topic. And who’s a better guide than Boot, author of 2002′s The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, and 2006′s War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Battleland conducted this email chat with Boot, who hangs his helmet at the Council on Foreign Relations, last week:

Read more: Giving Guerrillas the Boot

The War in Iraq: Was it Worth It?

Fareed Zakaria GPS

January 15, 2012

Indefensible Budget Cuts

Statement Before the House Armed Services Committee (September 13, 2011)

Is American Decline Inevitable?

Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program (September 8, 2011)

Max Boot on Fareed Zakaria GPS

November 21, 2010