Lines of Fire: A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

Abstract

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Other Books by Ralph Peters -- Introduction: Making Mud Pies in the Sty -- 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 -- Back Cover.