American Guerrilla is a compelling narrative history of how Americans have fought unconventional warfare from the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution through the anti-insurgent campaigns of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author provides the reader with a concise and engaging story of how the American approach to guerrilla warfare has been molded and executed, and how these small scale engagements have been integral to the success of our nation's larger battles.

"Now we have just cause to destroy them by all means possible" -- "No army can subsist in this country without rangers" -- "An unfair way of carrying on a war" -- "Tarleton's quarter" -- "The Kentucky reinforcement, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled" -- "Swamp Fox rangers" -- "I ain't killed but thirty-two men since this war commenced" -- "We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux" -- "All I want to hear are booms from the Burma jungle" -- "Bamboo telegraph" -- "To kill them, you'll have to kill me first".