Cover -- 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.

Ralph Peters, hailed by Fred Smoler of the New York Post as "one of the most remarkable American strategists of our time," covers the toughest security issues of our time in this sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim military triumphs a thousand years ago to the brutal, unconventional struggles of today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.