Lines of Fire
eBook - ePub

Lines of Fire

A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

  1. 437 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lines of Fire

A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

About this book

TheĀ  New York Times–bestselling military analyst offers a collection of essays covering a generation of geopolitics and military policy.
Ā 
For decades, Ralph Peters has been the most provocative and visionary American writer on military affairs, strategy, security, and intelligence. In that time, he predicted every major trend that has plagued the post-Cold-War world. A career military officer and acclaimed author, he has faced issues ranging from the explosion of religious terrorism to the fatal weaknesses of our intelligence system and our dangerous over-reliance on technology.Ā 
Now Peters delves into these and other enduringly vital themes in this definitive, career-spanning collection of his writings.Ā  Lines of FireĀ is an indispensable volume for understanding today's crises—and tomorrow's.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Other Books by Ralph Peters
  7. Introduction: Making Mud Pies in the Sty
  8. 1. The New Warrior Class
  9. 2. The Culture of Future Conflict
  10. 3. Our Soldiers, Their Cities
  11. 4. Spotting the Losers
  12. 5. Our New Old Enemies
  13. 6. The American Mission
  14. 7. The Human Terrain of Urban Operations
  15. 8. The Plague of Ideas
  16. 9. When Devils Walk the Earth
  17. 10. Stability, America’s Enemy
  18. 11. The Black Art of Intelligence
  19. 12. Hidden Unities
  20. 13. God’s Real Estate
  21. 14. In Praise of Attrition
  22. 15. Atlantis, the Ideological Superpower
  23. 16. The Goddess of the Southern Seas
  24. 17. The Shape of Wars to Come
  25. 18. The Ultimate Weapon
  26. 19. Occupation 101
  27. 20. Survival Strategy
  28. 21. Blood Borders
  29. 22. Why Clausewitz Had It Backward
  30. 23. Return of the Tribes
  31. 24. Lessons from Lebanon
  32. 25. The ā€œEurabiaā€ Myth
  33. 26. Dream Warriors
  34. 27. Learning to Lose
  35. 28. Better than Genocide
  36. 29. 12 Myths of Twenty-First Century War
  37. 30. Dishonest Doctrine
  38. 31. War’s Irrational Motivators
  39. 32. Fighting Words
  40. 33. Trapping Ourselves in Afghanistan
  41. 34. The Last (Mini) Empire
  42. 35. Charisma and Victory
  43. Back Cover