Chapter One: Vivek
Ranadivé
Ivan Arreguín-Toft’s book about
underdog winners is How the Weak Win
Wars (Cambridge University Press,
2006).
“We could not lightly draw water
after dark” is from T. E. Lawrence,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth
Editions, 1999).
William R. Polk’s history of
unconventional warfare is Violent
Politics: A History of Insurgency,
Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the
American Revolution to Iraq (Harper,