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Author Peters, Ralph, 1952-

Title Lines of fire : a renegade writes on strategy, intelligence, and security / Ralph Peters
Edition First edition
Published Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2011

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Description xi, 418 pages ; 21 cm
Contents 1. The new warrior class -- 2. The culture of future conflict -- 3. Our soldiers, their cities -- 4. Spotting the losers -- 5. Our new old enemies -- 6. The American mission -- 7. The human terrain of urban operations -- 8. The plague of ideas -- 9. When devils walk the earth -- 10. Stability, America's enemy -- 11. The black art of intelligence -- 12. Hidden Unities -- 13. God's real estate -- 14. In praise of attrition -- 15. Atlantis, the ideological superpower -- 16. The goddess of the southern seas -- 17. The shape of wars to come -- 18. The ultimate weapon -- 19. Occupation 101 -- 20. Survival strategy -- 21. Blood borders -- 22. Why Clausewitz had it backward -- 23. Return of the tribes -- 24. Lessons from Lebanon -- 25. The 'Eurabia' myth -- 26. Dream warriors -- 27. Learning to lose -- 28. Better than genocide -- 29. 12 myths of twenty-first century war -- 30. Dishonest doctrine -- 31. War's irrational motivators -- 32. Fighting words -- 33. Trapping ourselves in Afghanistan -- 34. The last 'mini' empire -- 35. Charisma and victory
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Subject Military art and science.
National security -- United States.
Strategy.
World politics -- 21st century.
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
LC no. 2011016188
ISBN 0811705889 (hbk.)
9780811705882 (hbk.)