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- Brand: Brand: Stackpole Books
- Published on: 2011-01-24
- Original language: English
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From Publishers Weekly
In his latest, author and columnist Peters (Fighting for the Future) puts the contemporary conflict between Islam and the West into the context of 14 centuries of warfare, making a clear and compelling case for rethinking the U.S. approach. When Muslim armies exploded out of Arabia in the 7th century, the armies of Dark Age Europe didn't know how to stop them. While the Muslims fought as a unified, cohesive army, the Europeans were loyal only to their feudal lords, fighting in small units, or simply man-to-man; fast-forward to the present of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the U.S.-led coalition is the unified force, while Islamist fanatics work as disorganized bands, attacking each other as often as coalition targets. Contrary to what Western leaders may think, Peters insists, the war on terrorism is a war of religion-at least for militant Islamists. From this vantage, Peters takes Western leaders to task for a 60 year policy of rational negotiation; in Peters's thorough analysis, the War on Terror is an emotionally-driven endeavor, and an effective strategy for victory will only arise once political and military leaders recognize the motives, internal and historical, that drive our foes.
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From Booklist
This collection of essays, articles, and columns by a former military intelligence officer is subtitled Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization because Peters believes present conflicts in the Middle East are but the latest battles in a 1,400-year-old war. The unifying theme of the pieces is that failure to understand that fact, historical illiteracy in American society at all levels, and insistence on dealing with Islamic and other non-Western cultures using Western values has led to a great waste of lives, time, and money for much of the past 60 years, in particular, the past 9. Peters supports the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, and these pieces were written to convince. They should not be dismissed as propaganda, for they offer insights into the Middle East mess that should be considered, from a writer who is an experienced hand with both fiction (e.g., The War after Armageddon, 2009) and nonfiction. --Frieda Murray
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One of the most remarkable American strategists of our time. --The New York Post
A journalist-warrior-philosopher ... notorious for his unbiased, hard-hitting approach toward the world s conflicts. --Special Warfare
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95 of 115 people found the following review helpful.
Must Read Analysis of the 21st Century's Defining Conflict
By Jerry D. Morelock
Ralph Peters shows once again why he is today's most insightful strategist on global affairs in his latest "must read" collection representing his best columns and articles on today's most vitally important issue - the assault of militant Islam on Western civilization, values and culture. A retired U. S. Army intelligence officer whose globe-trotting has gained him valuable first-hand experience in over 70 countries (including Iraq and Afghanistan), Peters is the author of 25 acclaimed books, a regular columnist in newspapers and magazines, and a popular on-air media strategist. While most contemporary pundits seem to be "lost in the weeds," content to carp about battlefield tactics and troop levels, Peters demonstrates his firm grasp of the Big Picture, the fundamental underlying nature of the struggle between militant Islam and the West that began fourteen centuries ago and still rages. Endless War's superb collection of essays, articles and columns - each one carefully selected by the author - represents a priceless primer on the 21st century's defining conflict. Peters' superbly argued introductory essay, "History and Hysteria" -- a plea for the importance of reading and understanding history - is alone worth the price of the book. The author's well-known provocative, hard-hitting, "tell-it-like-it-is" prose style has never been more compelling and revelatory. Endless War should be read by America's political and military decision-makers and by the public at large - before it's too late.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
NOW, IF ONLY THE RIGHT PEOPLE READ THIS BOOK...
By RICH
It’s hard to know just how or where to begin with this book—and this author. It—and he—is that good.
A bit of background. I came to Ralph Peters late (a decade or so after he started publishing) and circuitously, through his Civil War Novels, notably Hell or Richmond. If the man wrote nothing but fiction, that would be plenty. His novels are top-notch, better, by far, than most of the best-selling vampire-meets-new woman-meets-black ops/mercenary-meets fantasy gnome army formula stuff on the drug-store shelves. So, right away, you’ve got someone special pounding away on the keyboard, here.
To the book: by spring, 2015, as I write this, Endless War (and please forget about the “Middle Eastern Islam” tag-line. There’s much, much more here) is OLD. The original magazine pieces that comprise the book were on the racks in 2007-2009 and were collected and published here in 2010. However—buy it and read it anyway, because, as the French adage goes, “Plus �a change, plus c'est la m�me chose.”
Yes, indeed: the more things change, the more they stay the same. In fact, some of the many changes in the geo-political-military spheres in the last ten years or so make this book, in some ways, more fascinating than I’m sure it was when editors were poring over Peters’ submissions.
The man is the real deal and here that means a genuine iconoclast, and he’s got the audacity to butcher sacred military cows, rip the lid off tried-and-not-so-true political stumbling and snort at (especially) the political correct and oh-so-sensitive sentiments that GUARANTEE the promise of the book’s title: Endless War. And he's got the research and studies to back up everything he says.
Just a few snippets to persuade you to click “Add To Cart”:
In the piece about the man he calls “the world’s most effective leader” (Why Putin Should Scare Us) Peters provides an insightful profile (Sept. 2008) that explains what happened just recently, almost SEVEN YEARS AFTER he wrote this piece, when Putin’s forces “assisted” the pro-Russia contingent in the Ukraine. Get this: “...Putin belongs to a long tradition of aggressive Russian nationalists...I’m awed by his ability to analyze opponents and anticipate his reaction to his gambits...” Peters is talking here about “the dismemberment of Georgia” (remember that, hmm??) but he could have been talking about the day-before-yesterday incursion into the Ukraine. But it’s not just Putin’s plan to “reconstruct the empire of the czars” that has the iconoclast’s attention, but the truism that “Putin is foolish for relying on oil, gas and mineral revenue while failing to diversify his economy.” However, Peters insists, “He prefers a wealthy government to a wealthy society. Putin can control a handful of oligarchs...but a diversified economy would decentralize power.” Ah, but the Prime Minister has faults. Read and discover them, too...
Then there is Peters’ “stop-the-nonsense” approach to the drug war waged against the Mexican cartels, in Border Bloodbath, which, by Peters’ reckoning, had taken 8,000 lives “in two years”, which means, up to March, 2009. What’s the body count six years later, I wonder? Many pieces, such as this one, are short: 3 pages long, but those pages are packed with no-bull**** punches, fearlessly predicting that “If President Felipe Calderon’s brave efforts fail, the next President south of the border will be a tool of the narco-terrorists." Well, Calderon DID fail. His replacement, Enrique Pe�a Nieto, while shifting the focus to police corruption, is likely failing, too. Is he a tool as Peters’ suggests? Well, if his police corruption strategy (certainly valid, down there) is simply a diversion, then perhaps...
“The Halfway War.” is ostensibly about Israel’s sputtering response to the Hezbollah threat back in 2009—on the eve of Netanyahu’s rise to the office of Prime Minister (he recently won his recent re-election by “playing tough” so maybe he read Peters...) the piece is really about ANY country which fails to follow through against its enemies (Desert Storm comes to mind.) Peters declares, “Israel broke a fundamental rule of all warfare. He who is unwilling to pay the butcher’s bill promptly will pay it with compound interest in the end.” And so it has come to pass in Iraq...
And finally, the piece that, in itself, is worth the price of the book, an hilarious but oh-so-accurate set of instructions for those who do battle against “faith-fueled terrorists” entitled, Taliban from Outer Space (please feel free to substitute any of the following for Taliban: Boko Haram, ISIL, Al shabaab, Islamic State.) No “spoilers” here, but take my word: it is an outrageously clever, dead-on-target way of perceiving the enemy that too few western military minds can comprehend.
If you think the length of this review saves you the trouble of reading this book, think again. There are over 30 pieces within its 273 pages. “Food for thought” doesn’t come close to describing the cover-to-cover banquet laid out by this prescient, perceptive writer.
37 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
Titillating and undeveloped
By Edmund Jimenez
First, may I say that I hold Ralph Peters in the highest regard. His erudition is stimulating; his writing and turn of phrase are delightful. Over the last five years or so, I've read virtually everything that he has written.
However, I was very disappointed in *Endless War* because its potential was never realized. I mean that his essays' various arguments and other assertions were insufficiently supported. I should point out that I am in accord with most of those arguments and assertions. Still, more background and supporting material should have been offered to the critical reader, in order to make his arguments more compelling.
To accomplish the above, I think that it would have been necessary to double the size of the book. The requisite time and work might have been rejected for who knows what reason(s). The essay format found in this book, by its nature, leaves the sympathetic reader wanting more, and the skeptical reader unconvinced.
This book is worth reading because the history under discussion should excite the reader and encourage him to pursue the various subjects on his own. Unfortunately, the author gives the interested reader no help since an index and notes section are absent.
Ultimately, although passionate, this collection lacks enough depth to be satisfying.
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