Wars of Blood and Faith The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century

Name: Wars of Blood and Faith The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780811735643

ISBN-10: 0811735648

ISBN-13: 9780811735643

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Authors: Ralph Peters

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List price: $25.95
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication date: 1/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English



Introduction: Where We Are Now



The Twenty-First Century Military


The Shape of Wars to Come


Living, and Dying, with Suicide Bombers


Shattering Warfare's Rules


Heroes with Bulldozers


Bloodless Theories, Bloody Wars


Hawks for Dissent


Why Clausewitz Had It Backward


The Hearts-and-Minds Myth


The Myth of Immaculate Warfare


Studying War


Politically Correct War


The Man Who Wouldn't Listen


Killing with Kindness


Letter to the New Secretary


Quantitative Incompetence


Rebels and Religion


Progress and Peril



Iraq and Its Neighbors


What Now, Lieutenant?: Another Day in Iraq


Does Iran Want War?


Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look


Kill, Don't Capture


Back to Baghdad


Arabs' Last Chance


Afghan Reality


9/11: Five Years On


Is Pakistan Coming Apart?


Cradle of Hate


Kill Muqtada Now


Last Gasps in Iraq


Plan B for Iraq


Iraq's Uncivil War


The Iraq Mutiny?


From Metternich to Jim Baker: The High Price of Restoring the Ancien Regime


Why They Got It Wrong


A Lesson for Tyrants


King David Returns


Eyeing Iran


W's Last Chance


Talk Is Cheap


Ugly Choices: Tough Bets in Mideast


Sunni Vs. Shi'a: It's Not All Islam



The Home Front


Spies & Lies


Our Strategic Intelligence Problem


Secrets for Sale-Cheap


Lynching the Marines


The New Combatants



Israel's Struggle


Kicking Out Corruption


Tragedy of Errors


Israel's New Fear


Can Israel Win?


Target: Hezbollah


The Road to Qana


Defying Terror


Soldiers' Grit in "Organized Mess" of War


Watching the War


Ghost Towns of War


NYer Hangs Tough


Destination: Stalemate


Bloody Border


Lessons So Far


Hezbollah 3, Israel 0


Moment of Truth


Lessons from Lebanon: The New Model Terrorist Army



The World Beyond


Waters of Wealth and War: The Crucial Indian Ocean


The "Cartoon Riots": Bigots on Both Sides


The Worst Plague


Emerging Hot Spots


Democracy's Global Crisis


Russian Roulette


French Twisted


Nigerian Nightmare


The Undecided Continent: The New Struggle for Africa


The "Eurabia" Myth


The Damned of Darfur


Terror's Surprise Loss-Islamists Fold in Somalia


Terrorizing Terrorists


Strategic Invisibility


Return of the Tribes