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Asfittingforthetwenty-firstcenturyasvonClausewitz’sOnWarwasinitsowntime,InvisibleArmiesisacompleteglobalhistoryofguerrillauprisingsthroughtheages.Beginningwiththefirstinsurgenciesintheancientworld―whenAlexandertheGr
作者简介
MaxBootisoneofAmerica'sleadingmilitaryhistoriansandforeign-policyanalysts.TheJeaneJ.KirkpatrickseniorfellowinnationalsecuritystudiesattheCouncilonForeignRelations,heistheauthoroftwo-widelyacclaimedbooks:"TheSavageWarsofPeace:SmallWarsandtheRiseofAmericanPower"and"WarMadeNew:Technology,Warfare,andtheCourseofHistory,1500toToday."Hislatestbook--"InvisibleArmies:AnEpicHistoryofGuerrillaWarfarefromAncientTimestothePresent"--willbecomingoutinJanuary2013.HeisalsoaregularcontributortoTheWallStreetJournal,TheLosAngelesTimes,andmanyotherpublications.HehasadvisedmilitarycommandersinIraqandAfghanistan,andhisbookshavebeenassignedreadingbythemilitaryservices.Hehasbeencalled"amasterhistorian"bytheNewYorkTimesanda"apenetratingwriterandthinker"byTheWallStreetJournal.Formoreinformation,seewww.maxboot.net.