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Policy advisor and historian Max Boot has written “the” history book to guerilla warfare. His 750-page narrative (including a 66-page bibliography and 41-page index) details guerilla warfare going ...

COMUNA 13, Colombia -- A jumble of brick hovels pitched on a hillside overlooking downtown Medellin, Comuna 13 has long served as an urban redoubt for Colombia's two Marxist guerrilla armies, whose ...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — Basking in good will after helping to liberate two guerrilla-held hostages, Hugo Chavez sparked a new controversy Friday by urging Colombia and Europe to stop calling this nation's ...

In peacetime Russia. Peter and Elena Ignatov led a quiet, homey life. But the war altered all that. Killing has become their trade; they pursue it with the matter-of-factness with which Peter once ...

I first encountered the concept of guerrilla warfare back in 1964. Friends of my parents had dropped over for coffee. Pleasant banter quickly turned ugly when the subject of Vietnam arose. No one ...

INVISIBLE ARMIES: AN EPIC HISTORY OF GUERRILLA WARFARE FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT By Max Boot Liveright, $35, 784 pages In “Invisible Armies,” Max Boot attempts to write an up-to-date account ...

The Army of Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southeast tip of India, has killed the leader of one of the world's deadliest guerilla armies. The Tamil Tigers invented the suicide belt and murdered ...

A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. The retreat began in November. The year was AD 66. 1 A Roman army more than thirty thousand strong had marched south from Syria into ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: WAR Invisible Armies by Max Boot (Liveright) I first encountered the concept of guerrilla warfare back in 1964. Friends of my parents had dropped ...

In late 2010, a group of Colombian soldiers boarded two Black Hawk helicopters and flew into the middle of the country’s jungle. At the time, the Army was fighting a brutal war against left-wing ...