Lines of fire : a renegade writes on strategy, intelligence, and security / Ralph Peters.

Author/creator Peters, Ralph, 1952-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoMechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 418 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
National security--United States.
Military art and science.
Strategy.
World politics--21st century.
United States--Military policy.

Contents Introduction: Making mud pies in the sky -- The new warrior class -- The culture of future conflict -- Our soldiers, their cities -- Spotting the losers -- Our new old enemies-- The American mission -- The human terrain of urban operations -- The plague of ideas -- When devils walk the earth -- Stability, America's enemy -- The black art of intelligence -- Hidden unities -- God's real estate -- In praise of attrition -- Atlantis, the ideological superpower -- The Goddess of the Southern Seas -- The shape of wars to come -- The ultimate weapon -- Occupation 101 -- Survival strategy -- Blood borders -- Why Clausewitz had it backward -- Return of the tribes -- Lessons from Lebanon -- The "Eurabia" myth -- Dream warriors -- Learning to lose -- Better than genocide -- 12 myths of twenty-first century war -- Dishonest doctrine -- War's irrational motivators -- Fighting words -- Trapping ourselves in Afghanistan -- The last (mini) empire -- Charisma and victory.
LCCN 2011016188
ISBN9780811705882 (hbk.)
ISBN0811705889 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks UA23 .P694 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold