Endless War
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2010
179 pages
978-0-8117-4471-3 (ISBN)
Description
A former Military Intelligence officer, Peters extends his successful series on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness.
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Content
- Intro
- Half-Title Page
- Books by Ralph Peters
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: History and Hysteria
- PART I: The War We Pretend Away
- Crescent Triumphant!
- Crescent Descending
- When Muslim Armies Won
- PART II: The Devils These Days
- The World after the "Age of Ideology
- Dream Warriors
- Faith's Civil Wars
- Better Than Genocide
- America's Two Terror Wars
- The Global Nuclear Underground
- Tribes vs. Democracy
- Man on the Move
- Al Qa'eda's Market Crash
- Why Putin Should Scare Us
- The Halfway War
- Taliban from Outer Space
- Ghost States: "Inconvenient" Reality
- Border Bloodbath
- PART III: Fit to Fight
- Wanted: Occupation Doctrine
- Learning to Lose
- The Geezer Brigade
- Bribing Troops to Quit
- Dishonest Doctrine
- Dethroning the King
- Fighting Words
- Learning from Georgia
- The Damage Done
- COIN Lies We Love
- The No-Victory Lie
- PART IV: Endless Wars
- Where Are the Strategists?
- 12 Myths of Twenty-First-Century War
- Assessing the Surge
- What "Bomb Iran" Really Takes
- War's Irrational Motivators
- Wishful Thinking and Indecisive Wars
- Trapping Ourselves in Afghanistan
