Books written by Matthew J. Flynn

  • Settle and Conquer: Militarism on the American Frontier, 1607–1890
    Settle and Conquer: Militarism on the American Frontier, 1607–1890

    Michael Collins responds to Webb's too “sanitized history” by stressing that to Spanish-speakers, Rangers were the devil personified. One could say Natives had the same reaction. See Collins, Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the ...

  • China Contested
    China Contested

    Lee Teng-hui, pictured here with the Dalai Lama in 1997, served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 1988 to 2000. Throughout his tenure, the People's Republic of China feared Lee supported Taiwanese independence, ...

  • First Strike: Preemptive War in Modern History
    First Strike: Preemptive War in Modern History

    Alan M. Dershowitz, in Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, affirms this point but does not disallow the use of preemption in circumstances other than Iraq, a categorical rejection that Helen Duffy does make in her book, ...

  • First Strike: Preemptive War in Modern History
    First Strike: Preemptive War in Modern History

    DavidDayan, FirstStrike: A Battle History of Israel's SixDay War, trans. Dov BenAbba (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1967), 4, 5. ** Eric Hammel, Six Days in June: How Israel Won the 1967 Arab–Israeli War (NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons ...

  • Washington & Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution
    Washington & Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution

    RELATED POTOMAC TITLES Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution, by Melanie Randolph Miller Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804–1815, by Peter P. Hill Wellington: The Iron Duke, ...

  • Settle and Conquer: Militarism on the American Frontier, 1607-1890
    Settle and Conquer: Militarism on the American Frontier, 1607-1890

    This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of "counterinsurgency.

  • Washington and Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution
    Washington and Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution

    Two political and military giants compared

  • Milwaukee Jihad
    Milwaukee Jihad

    Islam was founded about fourteen hundred years ago. Almost from the beginning, jihadist forces overran Spain and Portugal. They attacked France, occupied Greece and the Balkans, and menaced Austria until three hundred fifty years ago.

  • The Court of Last Resort
    The Court of Last Resort

    He tries to save the defendant, but he fails. His law clerk, a beautiful Asian woman with whom he is having an affair, tries to soothe him. But in the end, the Judge must sit in trial on himself in the Court of Last Resort.