Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World - Hardcover

Peters, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811700240 ISBN 13: 9780811700245

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2002

Synopsis

In the precursor to his groundbreaking Beyond Baghdad, strategist Peters assembles 18 essays, written both before and after the September 11 attacks.

About this title

About the Author:

Ralph Peters retired from the U.S. Army in 1998, shortly after his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, in order to write and speak freely. His service took him from the enlisted ranks to the Executive Office of the President, from the former Soviet Union to the Pentagon, and from the Andean Ridge to Southeast Asia. Post-military travels have taken him to India, Indonesia, Egypt, and various other troubled regions. He believes that only firsthand observation allows a practical understanding of the world's problems. In addition to his influential book on strategy, “Fighting for the Future”, Ralph Peters is the author of twelve novels, including a series of critically acclaimed historical novels published under a pen name.

From Booklist:

Novelist and retired army officer Peters gathers his recent short nonfiction in a useful and occasionally abrasive book focusing on the international climate for terrorism--where it comes from, where it may go besides the U.S., why Americans are a prime target (he doesn't believe much in American guilt), and what should be done to reduce American vulnerability. Some op-ed-style pieces take up such collateral subjects as American willingness to accept casualties in low-intensity combat and the absence of sinister fascist tendencies among army officers. Peters rises to conservative patriotic peroration in the pieces written during the three months after 9-11, and he exhibits distastes for the Clinton administration and for intellectuals, foreign and domestic, that will make parts of the book unreadable for some. Basically this is good, intelligent stuff, though Peters' predilections sometimes obscure its merits. Roland Green
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About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0811700240
• ISBN 13: 9780811700245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368