by
Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune...