by Max Boot
Dahomey, 95
Dáil Eireann, 248, 256
Damascus, 162, 266, 281, 282, 507
Dani, 12
Daoud, Mohammad, 488
Daraa, 281–82, 284
Dar es Salaam, 395, 443
Darius, King of Persia, 17–18, 151
database of insurgencies, xxvi, 564, 565, 569–89
David, King, 9, 54
Dawes, William, 65
Dayan, Moshe, 295
Day of the Jackal, The (novel and film), 375
D-Day, 290, 309
Deakin, William, 311
death squads, 448, 532
Debray, Régis, 442, 445, 456
Decima MAS, 288
Decker, George, 415, 561
Declaration of Independence, U.S., 76, 350–51, 408
“Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders,” 515, 516
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 26, 75
decolonization, xxv, 273, 322–26, 393, 410
Defeating Communist Insurgency (Thompson), 398–99
Defense Department, U.S., 413, 497–98, 538
DeFreeze, Donald, 457
Degaev, Sergei, 240, 244
de Gaulle, Charles, 322, 373–75
Degueldre, Roger, 375
Delacroix, Eugène, 106, 108
de la Rey, Jacobus Hercules, 188
De Lattre Line, 357
Delaware River, 69
Delta Commandos, 375
democracy, 123, 259, 264, 382, 390, 400, 449, 457, 527, 541, 559, 563
in China, 329, 476
in Cuba, 430, 432, 436
in Israel, 468–69, 474
in Japan, 272
in Philippines, 403, 405
in South Vietnam, 416, 422
Democratic Party, U.S., 220, 224, 225
Demons (Dostoevsky), 229, 262
Demosthenes, 5
Deng Xiaoping, 476
Denmark, Danes, 307
Desert One, 482
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 98
Detachment 101, 267, 306
de Valera, Eamon, 248–49
de Wet, Christiaan, 188–89, 194, 249–50, 289, 467
Dhofar Province, 318
Dhofar separatists, 318, 391, 392
Diamond, Jared, 10
diamonds, 186
Diana, Princess, 106
Díaz-Balart, Mirta, 430, 432
Dien Bien Phu, 319, 349, 357–63, 373, 375, 395, 407
Dill, Solomon Washington, 221
Dimitrijevic, Dragutin, 270
Dinka, 12
Dio, Cassius, 7
direct action, 289
“Dirty War,” 448
disease, imperial wars and, 129, 136, 137–38, 193
Division of Navarre, 87
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 225
Djebel Sahaba, 12
Dodge, David, 505
Dominican Republic, 95, 439, 449
Donovan, “Wild Bill,” 290
Dost Muhammad Khan, King of Afghanistan, 165, 166, 167, 170, 173
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 229, 262
Dostum, Abdul Rashid, 499
Douglass, Frederick, 217
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 185
Doyle, Drury, 211–12
Doyle, James, 211–12
Doyle, John, 211–12
Doyle, Mahala, 211
Doyle, William, 211–12
drone strikes, 175, 549
drugs, 340
in Afghanistan, 495
Assassins and, 206
Opium War and, 165–66
Druze, 467, 501
Duarte, José Napoleón, 416
Dublin, 246–54
Bloody Sunday in, 252–54
Easter Rising in (1916), 203, 247, 249
Mansion House in, 248
Dublin Castle, 251, 253–54, 259
Dublin Metropolitan Police, 251
Dulles, Allen, 412
Dulles, John Foster, 407
Duma, Russian, 245
Durand Line, 172
Dutch East Indies, see Indonesia
Dyak headhunters, 383
dynamite, 209, 236, 237, 246, 367
dysentery, 279, 300, 337, 350, 495
Eastern Europe, 476, 499
anti-Nazi resistance in, 308–9
“Eastern Way of War,” 31–33
Easter Offensive (1972), 424
Easter Rising (1916), 203, 247, 249
East Jerusalem, 470
East Timor, 397
East Turkestan Islamic Movement, 479
Echevarría, José Antonio, 437
Edirne, 26
Edward I, King of England, 46, 49
Edward II, King of England, 49
Edward of Woodstock (Black Prince), 45
Edwards, Bryan, 92, 93, 94
Egypt, 42, 107, 183, 208, 266, 318, 395, 478, 496, 513, 523, 524, 528, 567
al Qaeda and, 521, 526
ancient, 9
Israel’s war with, 461
Muslim Brotherhood in, 461, 481, 488
PLO and, 462, 466
Suez Canal and, 323
Egyptian Camel Corps, 274
Eighth Route Army, Chinese, 343
Eighty-Second Airborne Division, U.S., xix–xx, 552
Eighty Years’ War, 46
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 309, 323, 361, 411, 412, 439
El Al, 452, 466
Elamites, 14, 15, 27
Elburz Mountains, 154, 206
elections, 405, 430, 508
Irish, 257
U.S., 198, 224, 225
in Vietnam, 351, 412
El Empecinado (Juan Martin Díaz), 89
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary, 230, 231
Elliott, Joel, 144
Ellis, John, 27, 192
Ellsberg, Daniel, 421
Elphinstone, Monstuart, 172
Elphinstone, William, 167, 168, 172
El Salvador, 416, 447, 449, 537, 544, 562
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 67
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 286
Encyclopedia of Jihad, 522
Endehors, L’, 232
“enemy-centric” strategies, 180
Engels, Friedrich, 110
England, 46, 229–30
in Indian wars, 132–34, 139
Scotland vs., xxxii, 46–50, 557
Enlightenment, 55, 475
irregulars in, 59–63
see also liberal revolutions
Enosis, 390, 391
Entebbe, 395, 451–56, 458, 467, 476, 525
EOKA (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters), 318, 390, 391, 569
Eskimo, 11
Espoz y Mina, Francisco, 86–87, 89, 475
ETA, Basque, 210, 397, 456, 459
Ethiopia, 296, 517, 521
ethnic cleansing, 105, 532
ethnic wars, 397, 484, 509
Everett, Edward, 106
“Evolution of a Revolt, The” (Lawrence), 285–86
Ewald, Johann von, 63
Exodus affair, 325
explosives, 248, 280, 516, 517, 528, 529, 530
see also dynamite; gelignite
expropriations, 242–43
Eyre, Vincent, 164, 168
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 398
Falkland Islands War (1982), 324
Fall, Bernard B., 354–55, 537
Fallujah, 545
Fanon, Frantz, 456
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), 447, 449
FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), xxix, 447, 449, 472, 477, 566, 570
fascism, 209–10, 343
see also Italy, Fascist
Fatah (Conquest), 461–64, 467, 473
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev), 235
Fawkes, Guy, 208–9
Fayyad, Salam, 513
FBI, 522
fedayeen, 206–7, 461, 465
Feisal, King of Iraq, 274, 275, 277, 283
Fenians, see Iri
sh Republican Brotherhood
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 85
Fergusson, Bernard, 300–301
feuds, 11, 173, 533
Fez, 124, 182
Field Intelligence Department, British, 195
Fifteenth Amendment, 219, 224
Fifth Infantry Regiment, U.S., 151
Figner, Vera, 235–36, 238, 240
Finch, Peter, 455
fireship, 104–5
First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (July 1921), 329
First Front Army, 338
First Intifada, 468–69, 471, 472, 474, 478
First Opium War (1839–42), 165–66
Fischer, David Hackett, 65
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 101
flagellation disorder, 284–85
FLN (National Liberation Front), 322, 365, 367–76, 392–93, 473, 511
Florida, 124, 140, 149
Florus, 21
FM 3–24, xviii
foco theory, 431, 442, 447–48
Fonda, Jane, 420
Foner, Eric, 221
Force 17, 503
Force X, 404
Foreign Affairs, 422
Foreign Legion, 178, 356, 359, 360
forgers, 291
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 219
Fort Duquesne, 132
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Combined Arms Center at, 540–41
Fort Sill, Okla., 149
Forward Operating Bases, U.S., in Iraq, xvii, xviii
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 431
Fourteenth Amendment, 219, 224
Fourteenth Army, 301
Fourth Front Army, 338
Fourth Regiment (King’s Own), 66
Fox, 140
Fox, Charles James, 76
France, 46, 53, 57, 80–91, 97–100, 119–22, 147, 177–83, 203, 261, 264, 266, 318, 394, 417, 451, 456, 527, 537
in Algeria, 15, 79, 100, 181, 183, 322, 326, 363–77, 382, 390, 392–93, 416, 469, 473–74, 513, 514, 527, 546, 560
in American Revolution, 74–78, 99, 107, 566
anarchism in, 203, 226–33
Boer War and, 185
British compared with, 390, 392–93
British wars with, 78, 95–96, 99, 185
Caucasus and, 161
chevauchée in, 45
colonial troops of, 61
Communist Party in, 349
Diem and, 411, 412
Entebbe hijacking and, 452, 453
Greek independence and, 107
growth of army in, 60
Haiti and, 91, 93, 95, 97–100, 120, 180, 205, 308, 561
Hezbollah and, 506
Huns in, 29
in Indochina, see Indochina, France in
intelligence service of, 496
Italian unification and, 113, 115–16
maquis (resistance) in, 309, 312, 343, 348
metropolitan vs. colonial army of, 178, 179, 181
Middle East and, 281, 282, 326
in Morocco, xxv, 124, 180–83, 200, 356, 368
navy of, 74, 78
Nice and, 109, 115, 116
Normans in, 40
in Peninsular War, 81–91, 102, 107, 120, 123, 205, 309, 561
police in, 244
post–World War II, 322, 323, 325–26
Prussia’s war with, 119–20
in Shanghai, 328
Suez Canal and, 323
torture used by, 364–66, 371–72, 527
U.S. aid to, 354, 356, 361
Vendée revolt and, 57, 81, 91, 120, 180, 205, 561
in War of Austrian Succession, 60–61
in World War I, 120, 179, 182
in World War II, 182, 289, 290, 304, 307, 309, 312, 348
Franco, Francisco, 233
francs-tireurs, 119, 120
Franklin, Benjamin, 76
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Hungary, 261, 266, 269–71
Frederick the Great, 61
Freedmen’s Bureau, 222
Free French, 309, 348
French, David, 390
French, Lord, 258
French and Indian Wars (1689–1763), 67, 124, 132, 137, 139
French Community, 326
French Far East Expeditionary Corps, 349, 356–62
French Revolution, 91, 101, 122–23, 334, 561
Reign of Terror in, xxii, 80–81
French Union, 354
Friedman, Thomas, 462
Frist, Bill, 535
Fromkin, David, 283
Fuentes, Carlos, 435
Fujian Province, 333
Fuller, J. F. C., 197
Funston, Frederick, 198
Gadea, Hilda, 435
Gage, Thomas, 64, 65, 70
Gallic War (Caesar), 54
Gallieni, Joseph, 179–80, 181, 183
Galula, David, 369, 398–99, 403, 408, 537, 538, 540
Galvin, John, 537
Gambetta, Léon, 119
Gandhi, Mahatma, 229, 324, 474
Gaozu, Han emperor, 35–36
Garfield, James, 232
Garibaldi, Anita, 111–14
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, xxi, xxv, 109–23, 215, 225, 271, 340, 342, 379, 475
Castro compared with, 431
fame of, 112, 115, 118–21
Guevara compared with, 433, 434, 435, 439, 442
Garibaldi, Ricciotti, 119
Gates, Horatio, 73, 74
Gaucher, Jules, 360
Gaul, 29
Gaza City, 470
Gaza Strip, 64, 283, 395, 461, 462, 463, 465, 468–71, 473, 478, 548
First Intifada in, 468–69
Hamas in, 512, 564
gazavat, 155, 158–62
G Division, 251
gégène, 364–66, 372
Geggus, David Patrick, 95
Geifman, Anna, 245
gelignite, 246, 248
Gemayel, Bashir, 501
General Orders No. 100, 120
General Staff, British, Geographical Section of, 276
General Staff, Russian, 498
Geneva Accords (1954), 363
Genghis Khan, 28, 42, 169
genocide, 193
against American Indians, 146
against Armenians, 261
George III, King of England, 96
George V, King of England, 256
Georgia (country), 125, 162
Stalin in, 109, 242–43
Georgia (U.S. state), 70, 73
Geraghty, Tim, 501–2, 506
German East Africa, 443
Germanic tribes, 21, 26
Germans, in French Foreign Legion, 354, 356
Germany, 109, 123, 266, 263
American Revolution and, 75, 77
Baader-Meinhof Gang in, 394
Boer War and, 185, 193
Exodus affair and, 325
hostage rescue attempt in, 453
imperialism of, 178, 182, 193
metropolitan vs. colonial army of, 178
occupied, 379
terrorism in, 210
in Thirty Years’ War, 46, 51
Weimar, 271
in World War I, 120, 182, 271
Germany, East, 449, 455, 456, 458
Germany, Nazi, xxiii, xxiv, 72, 80, 158, 233, 273, 390, 562, 563
Allied bombing of, 174–75
anarchism in, 233
appeal of, 271–72
expansion of, 266
racial attitudes of, 307–8, 323
resistance to, 307–12
in World War II, 174–75, 288, 289, 290, 307–12, 321, 322, 366, 403, 409, 493, 536
in Yugoslavia, 54, 84, 261, 310–12, 493, 514
Germany, West, 379, 451, 458
terrorism in, see Baader-Meinhof Gang
Germentchug, 156
Geronimo, 124, 148–49, 195
Gestapo, 366
Ghana, 324, 325
Ghazi Muhammad, 155–57
Ghilzai tribal confederation, 166–67
Gibbon, Edward, 25, 2
6, 75
Gibraltar, 86
Gibson, Mel, 71
Gideon Force, 296–97, 299
Gimri, 154–56, 159
Girardet, Edward, 490–91
gliders, 288, 301, 303
globalization, 229
Gobi Desert, 35
Gogol (Greek chieftain), 104
Golan Heights, 510
gold, 22, 186, 280, 544
Gold Coast, 324
see also Ghana
Golden Mosque, 532
Goldman, Emma, 232
Goldsworthy, Adrian, 25, 30
Goliath, 9
Gone with the Wind (film), 225
Good Earth, The (Buck), 339
Good Friday Agreement (1998), 391, 569
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 476, 498
Gorenberg, Gershom, 474
Goya, Francisco de, 85
Grand Mosque, 483
Granma (ship), 427–28
Grant, Ulysses S., 223, 224
Graves, Robert, 284
Great Britain, 50, 53, 60–81, 123, 157, 246–60, 318, 350, 527
in Aden, 70, 325, 391, 392, 513
in Afghanistan, see Afghanistan, British in
American Revolution and, 59, 62–79, 88, 170–71, 183, 258, 309, 362–63, 560, 563, 566
Boer War and, 140, 146, 183–97, 250, 335, 381, 382
Caribbean possessions of, 96, 100
Caucusus and, 160–61
counterinsurgency success of, 389–93
in Cyprus, 70, 325, 390, 391, 392, 513
economy of, 321, 381
First Opium War and, 165–66
France’s wars with, 78, 95–96, 99, 185
Greek independence and, 106, 107
in imperial wars, xxv, 70, 80, 127–31, 147, 163–78, 183–97
in India, see India, British in
Indochina War and, 351
intelligence services of, 251–52, 257–58, 496
IRA and, xxiii, xxv, 251–52, 254–58, 289, 391, 569
in Iraq, 70, 255, 282, 287, 390
Irish rebellion against (1798), 80, 101–2, 107
Irish War of Independence and, 246–58, 263, 362, 389, 469
in Kenya, 93, 367, 390, 391, 392
in Malaya, 70, 322, 325, 377–93, 399, 416, 419–20, 546
metropolitan vs. colonial army of, 178
Middle East division and, 281, 282–83
in occupied Germany, 379
in Oman, 390–91, 392
in Palestine, 282, 283, 294–96, 323, 324, 325, 379, 461
in Peninsular War, 85–89, 107
post–World War II, 321–22
racism of, 308, 323
in Shanghai, 328
Suez Canal and, 323
in War of Austrian Succession, 60–61
in war on terror, 176
in World War I, 276–77, 280–83
in World War II, 288–91, 296–302, 312, 324, 351, 381, 383
Yugoslavia and, xxiii, 312
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 306
Greater Israel, 395
Greater Serbia, 270
Great Snowy Mountains, 337
Greece, 75, 260, 266, 310, 343, 394–95, 406, 440, 566
ancient, 4–5, 10, 19, 31, 35, 54, 60
civil war in, 398
Cypriot Enosis with, 390, 391