American Guerrillas

From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan—How Americans Fight Unconventional Wars

Thomas D. Mays

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781493022304
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

American Guerrillas is a compelling narrative history of how Americans have fought unconventional warfare from the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution through the anti-insurgent campaigns of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A timely volume, the author provides the reader with a concise and engaging story of how the American approach to guerrilla warfare has been molded and executed, and how these small scale engagements have been integral to the success of our nation’s larger battles.

The conventional view of popular American military history has been focused upon large-scale conflicts. American Guerrillas will attract history buffs as it puts guerrilla warfare into the larger context.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: “Now we have just cause to destroy them by all means possible”
• Chapter 2: “No army can subsist in this country without rangers”
• Chapter 3: “An unfair way of carrying on a war”
• Chapter 4: “Tarleton’s Quarter”
• Chapter 5: “The Kentucky reinforcement, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled”
• Chapter 6: “Swamp Fox Rangers”
• Chapter 7: “I ain’t killed but thirty-two men since this war commenced”
• Chapter 8: “We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux”
• Chapter 9: “All I want to hear are booms from the Burma jungle”
• Chapter 10: “Bamboo telegraph”
• Chapter 11: “To kill them, you’ll have to kill me first”
• Conclusion
• Notes
• About the Author