by Max Boot
Bloody Sunday (Nov. 21, 1920), 252–54
“blowback,” 497
Boers, xxiii, 183–97
warfare style of, 186–87
Boer War (1899–1902), xxv, 124, 127, 131, 183–200, 250, 255, 289, 377
blockhouses in, 194, 335
British concentration camps in, 140, 146, 192–94, 197, 381, 382
farm burning in, 191–92, 194, 196
as “last of the gentlemen’s wars,” 197
mobility in, 193–94
Philippine Insurrection compared with, 198, 199
reconciliation and reconstruction after, 196–97
utility of small groups in, 195–96
Vietnam War compared with, 418
Boer War, first (1880–81), 195
Bogrov, Dmitri, 242, 244
Bohemia, 57, 61
Bois Cayman (Alligator Wood), 93
Bolívar, Simón, 102, 123, 475
Bolivia, 394, 444–48
Böll, Heinrich, 458
Bolsheviks, 242–45, 247, 332
Bonaparte, Joseph, 84, 85, 89
Bonaparte, Napoleon, see Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Bonaparte, Pauline, 97
border reivers, 50
Border Ruffians, 213, 214, 222
Bose, Subhas Chandra, 307
Böse, Wilfried, 450–52, 455
Bosnia, Bosnians, xxvii, 107, 217, 269–70, 509, 514, 517, 525, 537
Boston, Mass., 64–67, 70
Boston Tea Party, 64
Botha, Louis, 188
Boudicca, 52
Bourbon family, 84, 89, 116–17
Bourdin, Martial, 230
Boxer Rebellion, 39, 329
Braddock, Edward, 132, 150
Bradford, William, 137
Brandenburg commandos, 288, 289
Bratton, J. Rufus, 221, 224
Brazil, 110, 394, 447–48, 567
Bréda family, 95
Breen, Dan, 246, 247–48
Bremer, L. Paul, III, 539
Brezhnev, Leonid, 486
bribery, 345
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 276
Briggs, Harold, 381–83, 385, 388, 389
Brighton, 259
Britain, 29
British Commandos, 291
British Commonwealth, 324, 326, 380
British Empire, 256, 308, 323, 417, 499
dismantling of, 324
British Legion, 71–72
Bronson, Charles, 455
Brooks, Preston S., 214
Brousse, Paul, 229
Brown, John, xxv, 202, 211–17, 228, 260, 261, 432, 447, 457
Brownshirts, see SA
Brunais, David, xviii–xx, 552, 555
Brus, The (Barbour), 48–49, 300
Brydon, William, 168
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 482
bubonic plague, 137
Buck, Pearl, 339
Buckley, William, 505
Buda, Mario, 230
Buddhist monks, 416
Buenos Aires, 394, 448, 507
Bugles and a Tiger (Masters), 175
Bulgaria, Bulgarians, 260, 310
Bulgars, 17, 30
Buller, Redvers, 187
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 67
Burdick, Eugene, 400–401
Burke, Edmund, xxii, 76
Burma, 267, 298–306, 319, 324, 381
Wingate in, 292, 298–305
Burma National Army, 306
Burnes, Alexander, 167
Burroughs, William S., 435
Burton, Richard Francis, 443
Burundi, 443
buses, 409, 467
Bush, George W., 526–27, 533, 534, 542, 546, 549
bushwhackers, 120, 212, 222
Byrne, Vincent, 252
Byron, Lord, 106, 108
Byzantine Empire, 102, 106
Cabrinovic, Nedeljko, 269, 270
Cacciatorei delle Alpi, 116
Caepio, Servilius, 22
Caesar, Julius, 53, 54, 206, 236
Cairo, 266, 276, 277, 298, 395
Arafat in, 460–61
Tal assassination in, 464
Calabria, 81, 91, 117–18
Calatafimi, 117
Calcutta, 323
California, 12, 146, 457
Callwell, Charles Edward, 200, 247, 540, 541
Calvert, “Mad Mike,” 303, 382
Cambodia, 319, 354, 395, 419, 476
Cambridge, 291
Campaigns of Alexander, The (Arrian), 5–6
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry, 193
Camp David, 470
Canada, 139, 152, 171, 224, 256, 290
Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 230
Caobang, 319, 355
Cao Dai sect, 353, 407, 410–12
Cape Colony, 124, 186, 189–91, 195, 196, 197
Cap-Français, 93–94, 97–99
capitalism, 434, 476
Caprera, 114, 115, 118
captivity narratives, 168
car bombings, 261, 452, 465, 521, 528
in Lebanon, 502, 504, 507, 508–9
Caribbean, 63
see also Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica
Caribs, 136
Carlists, 90
Carlos the Jackal, 517
Carlson’s Raiders, 291
Carnegie, Andrew, 198
Carnot, Sadi, 230
carpetbaggers, 219
Carter, Jimmy, 482, 495–96
Carthage, 21
Casey, Bill, 498
Casey, George, 533, 534, 541–42
Caspian Sea, 158, 478
castles, 45, 49
Castries, Christian de, 358, 361
Castro, Angel, 429, 430
Castro, Fidel, xxv, 235, 343, 397, 427–33, 435–42, 475, 494, 559, 566
Arafat compared with, 460, 461
attempts to overthrow, 414, 441
background of, 95, 429–31, 433
imprisonment and exile of, 431–33, 440
Matthews’s popularizing of, 436–37
Nasrallah compared with, 508
Taber’s interview with, 398, 437
as womanizer, 430, 432
Castro, Raúl, 432, 441
Catechism of a Revolutionary (Bakunin and Nechaev), 229
Catholic and Royal Army, 81
Catholics, 46, 50, 102, 119, 353, 369, 448, 509
and antecedents of terrorism, 208–9
Irish, 248, 391, 392
Italian unification and, 113, 114
Caucasus, 53, 172, 281
imperial wars in, 125, 158–63, 165, 200
Stalin in, 242, 244, 263
cavalry charge, 47
Cavour, Count Camillo di, 115, 116
CBS, 437
cell phones, 229, 517, 523
censorship, 243, 259, 420, 436
Central America, 10
Central Asia, 27, 35, 45
Alexander the Great in, xxxiii, 6, 53, 54
Russian advance in, 157, 165
Central Europe, 307
Central Junta, 85
Centurions, The (Lartéguy), 376
Cestius Gallus, 1–3
Cetshwayo, 129
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 197, 319, 324, 472, 514
Challe, Maurice, 374
Chamber of Deputies, French, 231
Champlain, Samuel de, 135–36
Ch’ang-an, xxxiii, 34
Changsha, 319, 330–33, 340
Chaplin, Charlie, 272
Chapman, Thomas, 275
Charles I, King of England, 206
Charleston, S.C., 70–73, 79
Charlie Wilson’s War (Crile), 497
Charlie Wilson’s War (movie), 497
Chávez, Hugo, 566
Chechnya, Chechens, 127, 186, 478, 489, 533
independence of, 514
Russians vs. (1990s–present), 509, 511, 514, 528
Russian war in (1829–59), xxv, 155–56, 158–61, 174
chemical weapons, 356
Cheroke
e, 140
Cherokee War (1759–61), 72
Cherusci, 21
Chetniks, xxiii, 266, 311–12
chevauchée, 44–46, 49, 50, 62
Cheyenne, 17, 141–45, 151, 152
Chiang Kai-shek, 30, 312, 331–32, 334–38, 343–46, 440, 456
Chile, 447
China, xxxiii,, xxiv, 8, 27, 30–41, 52, 53, 157, 267, 319, 326–46, 345, 387, 388, 395, 409, 417, 476, 477, 479, 564
Afghanistan and, 494, 496
civil war in, 273, 332–40, 344–46, 353, 398
Communists in, 319, 326–29, 331–46, 373, 437, 440, 511, 558, 570
Congo and, 443
Cultural Revolution in, 340, 562
economy of, 345, 476
First Opium War in, 165–66
Great Wall of, 15, 40
Guevara and, 441
imperialism and, 326–29
Japanese in, 307, 309, 326, 328, 338, 343–46, 349
Long March in, 114, 319, 335–40, 345
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) in, see Nationalist Party, Chinese
purges in, 333
revolution in, xxv, 31, 322, 326–27
style of ancient warfare in, 31–33
Tiananmen Square in, 468–69
Vietnam and, 350–53, 355
Vietnam War and, 420, 424, 425
warlords in, 329, 330, 332, 335, 336, 343
wars of national liberation supported by, 323
World War II and, 271
Xiongnu vs. Han in, xxxiii, 34–39, 54
Chindits, 267, 299–306, 357, 417
first expedition of, 299–302
second expedition of, 302–5
Chinese, in Malaya, 379–82, 384, 385, 388, 417
Chinese Home Guards, 382
Chin Peng, 379–80, 385–88
Chios, 105
Chivington, John M., 143
cholera, 300
Christianity, Christians, 25, 40, 51, 61, 278, 442
Armenian, 509
Indians and, 136, 139
in Lebanon, 467, 501, 506, 509
Muslim alliance with, 274
Muslims vs., 105, 162, 207–8, 509
Orthodox, 157
see also Catholics
Christian Science Monitor, 490–91
Church, Benjamin, 139
Churchill, Randolph, 291
Churchill, Winston, 174–75, 256, 379
Lawrence as adviser to, 282–83
on Lawrence’s death, 284
national liberation and, 324, 325
Wingate and, 301, 305
World War II and, 113, 288–89, 301, 384
CIA, 307, 351, 402, 405, 410, 411, 439, 546
Afghanistan and, 486, 496, 497, 498, 526
Al Qaeda and, 526–27, 531
bin Laden and, 496, 515
Bolivia and, 445, 446
in Guatemala, 434
Lebanon and, 505
Saigon Military Mission of, 407–8, 421
Vietnam War and, 419, 420, 421
Cienfuegos, Camillo, 438
Circassian campaign, 162
Circassians, 125, 215, 281
citizenship:
Malayan, 384
Nazis and, 308
Roman, 24–25, 308, 384
civic action, 183
in Afghanistan, 493
in Algeria, 368
Lansdale’s view of, 409
in Malaya, 384, 389
in Philippines, 405
in South Vietnam, 410
civil disobedience, 324
Civilian Irregular Defense Groups, 419
Civilis, Julius, 20
civilizations, clash of, 509
civil liberties, suppression of, 264, 527
civil rights, 219, 224
civil rights movement, 457
Civil War, U.S., 77, 90, 120, 142, 151, 219, 527
Garibaldi and, 118–19
guerrilla warfare in, 212–13
start of, 213, 217
civil wars, xx, 25, 29
in Assyria, 20
in China, 273, 332–40, 344–46, 353, 398
in Corfu, 5
in Greece, 398
in Guatemala, 448
in Iraq, 532
Irish, 256–57
in Lebanon, 467, 501, 509
in Mexico, 273
Russian, 233, 234, 273
in Spain, 90, 123, 234, 273, 431
Clancy, Peadar, 253
Clansman, The (Dixon), 225
Clark, Lewis, 392
Clarke, Dudley, 291, 292
classical conflicts, 4–7
Clausewitz, Carl von, 9, 90–91, 278, 524, 558
Clinton, Henry, 69–70, 71, 384, 562
Clinton administration, 516
CNN, 516, 523
“coastal road massacre,” 467
Codrington, Edward, 107
Colby, William, 411, 413–14, 424
Cold War, 323, 350, 443, 509, 538
Cole, USS, 522–23
Colley, Linda, 158, 169
Collins, J. Lawton, 411
Collins, Michael, 248–52, 256–59, 264, 289, 343, 362, 379, 467, 566
death of, 256–57
as heroic and likeable terrorist, 265
Cologne, 379
Colombia, xxix, 447, 449, 472, 477, 545, 562, 564, 566
Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, see FARC
Colonial Office, British, 282–84
Colonial Route 4, 355
colonization, 127, 139, 400, 442
see also imperial wars
Colorado volunteers, 143, 368
coloreds, in South Africa, 197
Colt revolver, 393
Comanche, 144, 145
Combat Organization, 241–42, 244–45
Combat Outposts, 542
Combined Action Program, 419
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 301
commandos, 288–91
assessment of, 313–17
use of term, 289
Committee of Correspondence, 76
Committee of Public Safety, 80
Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, Saudi, 483
Common Sense (Paine), 76
communism, Communists, 31, 209–10, 400, 448–49
Afghan, 485–86, 488
in Algeria, 365
anarchism vs., 228, 234
in China, 319, 326–29, 331–46, 373, 437, 440, 511, 558, 570
conspiracy claims about, 369
in Cuba, 430, 431, 432, 440, 441
demise of, 476–77
in Germany, 271, 272
Greek, 363, 566
in Malaya, 322, 325, 379–81, 383–88
in Philippines, 401–7
in Poland, 310
Vietnamese, 349–52, 369, 373, 380, 407–12, 416–20, 422–25, 440, 558
in Yugoslavia, 310–12
see also Soviet Union
Communist Combatant Cells, 456
Communist International (Comintern), 310, 329
Ho Chi Minh and, 349–50
Communist Party, Bolivian, 445
Communist Party, French, 349
Communist Party, Indochina, 350
Communist Party, Japanese, 343
computers, 517
Comyn, John, 46–47
concentration camps:
in Boer War, 140, 146, 192–93, 194, 197, 381, 382
in Philippine Insurrection, 198, 381
concentration strategy, 146
see also reservations
Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya, The, 386
Conein, Lucien, 421
Confederacy:
army of, 90
guerrillas in, 212–13
veterans of, 219, 220
Confucians, 31
Congo, 394–95, 397, 443–44
Congo, Belgian, 325, 443
Congress, U.S., 140, 213, 526, 549
anarchism and, 232
KKK and, 221, 223
see also S
enate, U.S.
Conrad, Joseph, 230, 262
Conrad of Montferrat, King of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, 207–8
Conservative Party, British (Tories), 193
Constantinople, 30, 42, 43, 105
Constitution, U.S., 223
Continental army, 67–70, 72, 73, 74, 78
Continental Congress, 67
conventional warfare, as recent development, 9–10
CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support), 424
Corfu, 5
Cornwallis, Lord, 70, 71, 73–75, 78
Corps of Gendarmes, 243–44
corruption, 412, 444, 546
in Cuba, 428, 430–31
in Philippines, 403, 405, 406
PLO and, 463, 470
in Soviet Red Army, 494, 495
Corsica, 51, 109, 373
Cossacks, 61, 155, 238, 242, 243
Costa Rica, 434
Council on Foreign Relations, xxvii–xxx
counterinsurgency, 63, 78, 127–201, 561–63
advantages of, 52–55
British success at, 389–93
coinage of term, 389
compromise and, 170–71
importance of political side of, 392–93
legitimacy of, 563–64
limitations of, 273
in Malaya, 377–93
manuals on, xviii, 54, 398–99
nation building and, 409–10
origins of, 8, 19–25
“population-centric,” see “population-centric” counterinsurgency
proper ratio in, 309
radical chic and, 398–99
resiliency and, 170
as “spot of oil,” 127, 179
Vietnam War and, 414, 419–20, 424
wars of national liberation and, 322, 323, 325
Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Field Manual 3–24; U.S. Army-Marine Corps), xviii, 540–41, 542, 546
“Counterinsurgency Guidance” (Petraeus), 542
Counterinsurgency Warfare (Galula), 398–99
counting coup, 145–46
Crane, Conrad, 540
Crazy Horse, 150, 152
Crimean War, 160–61
criminal underworld, in special operations, 291
Croatia, Croats, 61, 261, 270
Crook, George, 147–49, 151, 178, 179
Crusades, Crusaders, 523
Assassins and, 207–8
Cuba, 30, 393, 394, 449, 456, 477
Batista’s amnesty in, 432–33
Bay of Pigs and, 414
economy of, 441–42, 447
reconcentrado camps in, 192, 381
revolution in, xxv, 343, 389, 397, 398, 426–40, 566
in Spanish-American War, 108, 415, 426, 428, 469, 560
Cultural Revolution, Chinese, 340, 562
curfews, 282, 287, 371, 390
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, 6
Custer, George Armstrong, 141–45, 147, 149–52, 348
Last Stand of, 150–51, 163, 362
Custer, Libbie, 142
Cyprus, 70, 318, 325, 390, 391, 392, 513, 569
Cyrus II, King of Persia, 16–17
Czechoslovakia, 307, 487
Dadu River, 336
Dagestan, 125
Gimri in, 154–56, 159
Russian war in, xxv, 154–56, 159, 160, 161