Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History

by John J. Tierney Jr.

Book Overview

The turbulent occupation of Iraq has once again embroiled the United States military in an unconventional war. Chasing Ghosts is a study of unconventional warfare in American military history and its implications for the present and future. John J. Tierney examines America's numerous past experiences with this type of warfare from the Revolutionary War, when American irregulars fought the British and Loyalists, through the Vietnam War, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597971561
• ISBN13: 9781597971560
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"