American Guerrillas: From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan—How Americans Fight Unconventional Wars, by Thomas D. Mays, shows how important guerrilla warfare has been to America for much of our history. The French and Indian War was primarily a guerrilla conflict fought on the frontier.
For the next two hundred years, one of America’s key goals was to rid itself of Native Americans. The European-Americans who settled in what would become the United States quickly adapted themselves to “Indian” style warfare, with devastating results for the tribes - and lessons to be applied elsewhere. For much of our history, irregular warfare has played a prominent role, even during conventional conflicts like World War II.
As Mays illustrates, irregular warfare is the style of war of the twenty-first century. A book like this is necessarily for scholars of this topic.
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