by Max Boot
Princip, Gavrilo, 270
Principles of Revolution (Bakunin and Nechaev), 228–29
printing, printing press, 54–55, 286, 462, 567
prisoners of war, 308, 348, 361–62, 363, 488
proletariat, 241, 242, 332
propaganda, xxvi, 55, 531
Algerian War and, 374
Arafat’s use of, 462
bin Laden and, 519, 523
Castro and, 437, 440
hijackings and, 452
liberals’ use of, 59, 76, 112, 122
Mao and, 331, 338–39
“Propaganda by the Deed,” xxii
Protestants, 46, 101, 256, 264, 392
Plymouth Brethren, 292–93
protests, 324
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 228, 229
Proust, Marcel, 178
Provincial Reconstruction Teams, 180
Prussia, 53, 89, 102, 109, 118, 256
Bismarck in, 115, 119–20
France’s war with, 119–20
in War of Austrian Succession, 60–61
psychological warfare, xxii, 23, 55, 386
Huk Rebellion and, 404–5
public opinion, xxvi, 19, 63, 393, 559–61
Afghanistan and, 494
Algerian War and, 374, 376–77
American Revolution and, 75–77, 79, 338, 376–77
anarchism and, 228
Boer War and, 193
Chinese civil war and, 338–39
Greek independence and, 105–6
Indochina War and, 362
Iraq War and, 533, 534
Irish policy and, 256, 257, 338, 376–77
Philippines Insurrection and, 198
torture and, 366
Vietnam War and, 79, 393, 420, 425, 494
Pulaski, Tenn., 219
Punjab, 172
Pyongyang, 319, 346
Qaddafi, Muammar, 257, 467
Qana, 511
Quantrill, William Clarke, 212–13
Quebec Liberation Front, 456
Quebec meeting (1943), 301
Question, The (Alleg), 366
Quiet American, The (Greene), 400, 413
Qurashi, Abu Ubayd al-, 524
Rabat, 124, 182
Rabin, Yitzhak, 453, 454, 469, 470
race, 484
racism, 307–8, 323, 362, 375
see also Ku Klux Klan
radical chic, xxv–xxvi, 394–95, 397–477
“Radical Chic” (Wolfe), 398
radical Islam, rise of, 478–79, 481–549
radio, 289, 294, 373, 374, 392, 405, 486
Hezbollah and, 508, 513
Raid on Entebbe (Film), 455
railroads, 129, 152, 229, 409
Hejaz, 278–80
in tsarist Russia, 236–37, 242
Ramadi, 478, 533, 545
Ramallah, 463, 470, 471–72
Ramdi, xxviii–xxix
Ramírez Sánchez, Ilich, 466
Randolph, Benjamin Franklin, 221
rangers, 61–63, 67, 290
Rangoon, 267
rape, 221, 281, 354
Rathenau, Walter, 271
rationing, 321
Ravachol, 263
Rawlinson, Lord, 196
razzia, 45
Reagan, Ronald, 476, 482
Afghanistan and, 497, 498
Hezbollah and, 506
Rebels of the Sierra Maestra (CBS program), 437
reconcentrado camps, 192, 381
“reconcentration” policies, 390
in Malaya, 381–82, 385
see also concentration camps; reservations
Reconstruction, xxv, 218–25
Rectification Campaign, 338
Red Army, Chinese, 334–38, 341, 456
as Eighth Route Army, 343
in Tiananmen Square, 468–69
see also People’s Liberation Army, Chinese
Red Army, Soviet, xviii, 233, 308, 310, 399
in Afghanistan, xxvi, 485–88, 490–95, 519
“jackals” in, 494
in Manchuria, 344
in Yugoslavia, 312
Red Army Faction, see Baader-Meinhof Gang
Red Brigades, 394, 456, 458
Red Eyebrows, 39
Red Front Fighters’ League, 271
Red Guards, 341
Red River Delta, 356–57, 423
Red Scare (1919–20), 232
Red Sea, 266, 274, 276, 280, 395, 478, 518
Redshirts, 116–17, 271, 439
Red Star Over China (Snow), 339
Reformation, 45
refugees:
Afghan, 492, 493, 499
Jewish, 325
Palestinian, 461, 463, 467, 501
regicide, 206
Reichstag, burning of, 271–72
Reitz, Deneys, 189–90, 196
Remnants of an Army, The (Butler), 168
Renaissance, 45
rendition, 224, 526
Republican Guard, Iraqi, xvii–xviii
Republican Party, U.S., 218–22, 225
reservations, 146–47, 151, 172, 192
“revenge, renown, reaction,” 523–24
Revere, Paul, 65
Reveries (Saxe), 63
Revolt in the Desert (Lawrence), 285
Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian, 503, 507
Revolution in the Revolution? (Debray), 442
revolutions of 1848–49, 112–14
Rhodes, Cecil, 189, 195
Rhodesia, 404
rice, 382, 386
Richardson, Louise, 523
Rif Mountains, 182
Rimush, 14
Rio Grande do Sul, 110
Risorgimento, 112, 115–18
Riyadh, 521, 528
Robert I, King of Scotland, xxi, 46–50, 52
Roberts, Lord Frederick, 170, 175, 187, 191
Robespierre, Maximilien de, 80
Robin Hood, 51
Rochambeau, Donatien, 99
Rockingham, Lord, 77
Rodriguez, Felix, 446
Rogers, Robert, 61–63, 142, 290
Rogers’s Rangers, 61, 62
Roman History (Dio), 7
Romans, Roman Empire, 8, 10, 19–35, 41, 52, 75, 86, 129, 196, 403, 417, 560, 561
antecedents of terrorism in, 208, 209
auxilia in, 173
bonding with local elites and, 23–25
China compared with, 35, 38
citizenship in, 24–25, 308, 384
counterinsurgency of, 19–25
Eastern, 30
European empires compared with, 177
fall of, xxxii, 25–30, 39, 44, 51, 52
Jews vs., xxxii, 1–4, 7, 21, 23, 24, 25, 54, 154, 209
longevity of, 24
military manuals of, 54
Nazis compared with, 308
resiliency of, 170
Spain and, xxxii, 20, 22, 54, 215, 507, 565
Rome, 113, 118, 233, 394, 466
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 301
Roosevelt, James, 291
Roosevelt, Theodore, 108, 177, 198, 232, 433
Rorke’s Drift, 128
Rossini, Gioacchino, 230
Roxane, 6
Royal Air Force, British (RAF), 173, 284, 286, 289
in Burma, 299, 300
Royal Irish Constabulary, 248, 253
Royal Marines, British, 289, 325
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 292, 293
Royal Navy, British, 78, 79, 99, 286, 289
Exodus affair and, 325
in Middle East, 276
Royal Observatory, 230
Royal Sardinian Navy, 110
Royal Tank Corps, 284
Royal Ulster Constabulary, Special Branch of, 257
rubber, rubber seeds, 380, 381, 386, 388
Rules for the Conduct of Guerrilla Bands (Mazzini), 110, 342
Rumsfeld, Donald, 533, 534, 538
Rural Guard, Cuban, 428, 432, 436
Rusk, Dean, 413
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br /> Russia, 109, 159
Chechens vs. (1990s–present), 509, 511, 514, 528
Russia, tsarist, xxv, 53, 89, 102, 123, 125
Afghanistan’s relations with, 170, 171
anarchism in, 228–29, 232, 233, 235, 243, 260, 263
Chechnya and Dagestan wars of, xxv, 154–63, 174
French invasion of, 88, 90
Greek independence and, 107
internal passports in, 194
terrorism in, 203, 209, 210, 235–45, 252, 260, 261, 264
U.S. compared with, 157, 158, 163
in World War I, 271, 311
see also Soviet Union
Russian Civil War, 233, 234, 273
Russian Revolution (1905), 244, 245
Russian Revolution (1917), 247, 260, 332
Rwanda, 509
SA (Sturmabteilung), 271
Saadi, Yacef, 369, 370, 372, 373
Sabena Airlines, 453
Sabra refugee camp, 467, 501
Sacco, Nicola, 230
Sadat, Anwar, 520
Sadr, Moqtada al, xix, 532, 544
Sadr City, 544
Sadullah of Swat, 174
safe-crackers, 291
Sahara Desert, 181
Saigon, 319, 395, 410
Greene’s visit to, 400, 407
Indochina War and, 351, 353, 357
Lansdale in, 407–8, 412, 413, 416, 421–23
underworld in, 353
Saigon Liaison Office, 421
St. Clair, Arthur, 150
Saint-Domingue, see Haiti
St. Petersburg, 203, 233, 236–39
Winter Palace in, 237, 238, 239, 241
Saito, Makoto, 272
Saladin, 207
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, 478
Salafists, 483, 533
Salameh, Ali Hassan, 465
Salan, Raoul, 374, 375
Salang Highway, 489
Salazar, Antonio, 326
Sale, Florentia, 165, 167–69
Sale, Robert, 167
Salisbury, Harrison, 336
Salisbury, Lord, 193
salt, 73
Salvador, Santiago, 230
Samarra, 532
Sanchez, Ricardo, 539
Sand Creek Massacre (1864), 143, 145, 368
Sandinistas, 397, 448
San Martín, José de, 102, 123
Sanna’s Post, 188–89
Santa Clara, 439
Santayana, George, 555
Santiago, 394, 428, 438
Moncada army barracks in, 432, 439, 440
Santo Domingo, 95
Saragossa (Zaragoza), 57, 81–85
Sarajevo, 266, 269–70
Saratoga, British defeat at, 70, 77, 78
Sardinia, 114
Sargon, 13–14
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 375
SAS, see Special Air Service
Saudi Arabia, 395, 451, 478, 482–83, 513, 517–18, 520–21, 523, 527–28, 531
Afghanistan and, 496, 497
al Qaeda in, 521, 547
bin Laden expelled from, 516, 521
formation of, 283
intelligence in, 519
Khobar Towers bombing in, 507, 521
madrassas funded by, 499
PLO and, 464, 466
Wahhabism in, 481, 483
Sauk, 140
Saul, King, 9
Savage Wars of Peace, The (Boot), xxvii
Savannah, Ga., 70, 79
Savoy, 116
Saxe, Marshal de, 63
Saxony, in War of Austrian Succession, 60–61
Sayeret Matkal, 453–55, 458, 465
Sayyid Qutb, 481, 518
scalawags, 219
Schamyl, 215
Schiller, Friedrich, 51
Schiller, Moritz, 270
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 398
Schmitt, Daniel A., 552–55
schools, 201, 209, 559
“Science of Guerrilla Warfare” (Lawrence), 286
Science of Revolutionary Warfare, The (Most), 232
Scipio, 53
Scobell, Harry, 195
scorched-earth tactics, xxvii, 50, 158, 541
Scotland, 46–51
England vs., xxxii, 46–50, 557
rebellion in (1745), 78, 107
Scottish Highlanders, 63
Scythians, Scythia, xxxii, 6, 17–18, 151
SEALs, 288
“search and destroy” missions, xxvii, 54, 389, 419
Second Intifada, 294, 470–74, 478, 509, 513, 562
Second Seminole War (1835–42), 124, 140
Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 230, 262
Secret Army Organization (OAS), 374–75
Secret International Terrorist Organization, 310
Secret Service, 224
Secret Six, 215
Section Administrative Spécialisée, French, 368
segregationists, U.S., 210, 213, 217–25
Seleucids, xxxii, 3, 6, 7
Seljuks, 17
Selous Scouts, 404
Seminole, 124, 140, 157
Senate, Roman, 24
Senate, U.S., 214
Church Committee of, 414
sepoys, 166, 167
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xx–xxi, xxvii, 231, 465, 496, 500, 523–27, 548
cost of, 522, 525
origin of idea for, 524–25
responses to, 176, 232, 525–28, 549
Serbia, Serbs, 261, 311, 509
assassination of Franz Ferdinand and, 270–71
Sergei Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, 241
Sertorius, Quintus, 20, 52, 86
Service des Affaires Indigènes, French, 368
Services Office, 519
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence), 283, 285
Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 141, 150, 152, 222, 224
Seventy-Five Years’ War, 273
Seventy-Seventh Indian Infantry Brigade, 299, 304
Seville, 85
Shaanxi Province, 34, 319, 335, 337–40
Shah Shuja ul-Malkh, 165, 166, 170
Shamil, 156–57, 159–62, 348, 489, 533
Shamir, Yitzhak, 474
Shanghai, 328–29, 332, 570
Sharon, Ariel, 471
Shatila refugee camp, 467, 501
Shaw, George Bernard, 284
Shebaa Farms, 510
Sheehan, Neil, 412
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 123
Shelton, Ralph, 445
Sher Ali, 170, 487
Sheridan, Phil, 142
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 151, 173
Shi Huangdi, Chinese emperor, 33
Shiites:
Amal movement of, see Hezbollah
in Iraq, xviii, xix, 529–32, 544, 545
Ismailis, 206–8
in Lebanon, 501, 503, 505, 506, 508, 512, 513
weakness of, 505
Shin Bet, 463
Shining Path, 507, 511
Shultz, George, 498
Shy, John, 68
Siberia, 157, 244
Sicarii, 208, 209
Sichuan Province, 319, 336–37
Sicily, 51, 116–17, 118
Sidi Bou Othman, 182
siege warfare, 44
Sierra Madre, pursuit of Geronimo in (1882–86), 124, 148–49, 195
Sierra Maestra, 428, 436, 437, 438
Sihanoukville, 395, 419
Silesia, 57, 61
Silva, Anna Maria Ribeiro da, see Garibaldi, Anita
Sima Qian, 35, 38
Simon bar Gioras, 54
Simrell, Samuel, 221
Sinai Peninsula, 454
Sinan, Rashid al-Din, 207, 208
Singapore, 324, 362
Sinn Féin, 220, 247–50, 255, 256, 391
Sino-Japanese War, 343–46
Sioux, 17, 53, 129, 145, 148, 151, 152, 157, 186
Sirhan, Sirhan, 206
Sitting Bull, 152
Six-Day War (1967), 464
Si
xth Colonial Parachute Battalion (Bataillon Bigeard), 347–49
Sixth Legion, Roman, 2
Skorzeny, Otto, 288
slaves, slavery, 42, 92–96, 123
abolition of, 95, 119
in American Revolution, 71–72
in Haiti, xxv, 92–95, 98, 100
John Brown’s opposition to, 211–12, 214–17, 447
in Kansas, 211, 212
white, 168
Slavs, 54, 261, 270, 307
Slim, William, 301
Slovenians, 509
smallpox, 136, 137
Small Wars (Callwell), 199–200, 247, 541
Small Wars Manual (U.S. Marine Corps), 199–200, 399, 541
Smith, John, 133–34
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 189–91, 197
Snow, Edgar, 339, 350, 436, 437
Snow’s Island, 73–74
“social bandits,” 51, 242–43
Social Democrats, Russian, 242–43
see also Bolsheviks; Mensheviks
socialism, socialists, 55, 209–10, 244, 330, 392, 397, 475
French, 368
in tsarist Russia, xxv, 203, 210, 234
Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization, 503
Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Party, 241–42, 244–45
Social War, 24
Society of United Irishmen, 101
SOE, see Special Operations Executive
Sogdiana, 6
Soloheadbeg Quarry, 246–49
Somalia, 10, 53, 395, 452, 509, 514, 524, 548, 570
al Qaeda in, 517, 521
Somoza, Anastasio, 448, 449
Sons of Iraq, xxix, 533, 544
Sophie, Archduchess of Austria-Hungary, 269, 270
Sorley, Lewis, 421
South Africa, 197, 367, 395, 544, 566
Churchill in, 289
mercenaries from, 443
in World War II, 197, 297
see also Boer War
South African Women and Children’s Distress Fund, 192–93
South America, 9, 10, 51, 56, 124, 202, 394, 444
anarchists’ immigration to, 229
Garibaldi in, 110–12
Guevara’s trip across, 434
South Asians, 451
South Carolina:
American Revolution in, 56, 70–75
KKK in, 218, 220–21, 222
South Dakota, 152
South Korea, 319, 346
South Lebanon Army, 509–10
South Tipperary Brigade, 247
South Vietnam, xxiii, 195, 319, 345, 395, 413, 416–24, 456, 473, 474, 533, 564
creation of, 363, 407–12
“reconcentration” policies in, 381
Strategic Hamlets program in, 416–17
South Vietnamese army, 410–11, 417
South Yemen, 318, 391
Soviet Union, 80, 266, 319, 388, 395, 449, 476, 479, 567
in Afghanistan, see Afghanistan, Soviets in
anarchism in, 233
breakup of, 261, 326, 476, 477, 487, 499, 564
Chiang Kai-shek and, 335–36
Chinese Communists and, 331, 343, 344, 355
Congo and, 443
Cuba and, 440, 441, 442
Nazis in, 308–9
Palestinians and, 452, 465
Stalin in, xxiv, 245, 308, 340, 343, 346, 476, 562
Vietnam War and, 420, 424, 495