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

eng

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non fiction

Lines of fire

701809790

Ralph Peters

a renegade writes on strategy, intelligence, and security

This capstone collection brings together Ralph Peters' most enduring work -- insights that will be relevant to future generations

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