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| Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century | 
 enlarge | Author: Ralph Peters
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 081170274X
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.020112
EAN: 9780811702744
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Publication Date: July 15, 2007
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 A Time for Peace, a Time for War-Ecclesiastes 3:8 January 23, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
What time is it???
Depends on where you are these days.
Some days I wish I still had Boston's libraries nearby. I got this book through inter-library loan and this book came from south Georgia. There's not one single book in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area???
For shame!!! This book should be read before anyone in America makes a comment about Iraq or whether our troops should stay or go. Should be required reading for every literate, breathing person in my country!!!
This book is a compilation of newspaper and journal articles that Ralph Peters has written since 2006. You'll find his articles in the New York Post, USA Today, The Weekly Standard, Armchair General, and Armed Forces Journal.
His articles challenge accepted dogmas fed by the media like Iraq will be our next Vietnam, President Bush's policies in Iraq are all bad, Islam is a threat to only western civilization, and we're losing this war. He will convince you that Iraq will be Al Qaeda's Vietnam, not ours, President Bush was right to oust Saddam Hussein, Islam is a threat to itself, Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war, we and others, like the Ethiopians in Somalia, have scored significant victories against Al Qaeda!!!! Hallelujah!!! And I'm sure there must be muslims out there who are silently rejoicing at that fact.
We should never have our withdrawal, whenever it transpires, to be publicly trumpeted. Does our congress want to exterminate our army??? They're a rat pack of idiots if they do. (Yo, and it's an election year, another Hallelu!!!) Peters argues that if Iraq was in a civil war, we'd have to choose sides, but problem is, there's too many equally bad to choose from. We should withdraw, Peters says, "intelligently", if the Iraqi government and security forces continue persistently to not enforce the rule of law and mayhem prevails. Muslims kill muslims mostly in Iraq and elsewhere in the world.
"We'll get you. No matter how long it takes, we'll get you.", Peters writes in a January 10, 2007 New York Post article entitled Terrorizing Terrorists describing the latest victory against Al Qaeda in Somalia.
At home we have peace, in Iraq and elsewhere our troops are fighting a war against Al Qaeda and terrorists and countries harboring our troops welcome them. We have a professional military. We will not have another Vietnam as long as Congress will listen to our well informed, well educated, baptized in battle officers in uniform. Who am I to tell General Petraeus what to do in Iraq or Afghanistan? The world is a dangerous place what with Iranian centifuges spinning and enriching Uranium and dictators blossoming all over the globe in South East Asia, South America, Africa, and Asia. We should listen to Ralph Peters and other military experts who have served our country in uniform.
I can't tell you enough how good this book is. It informs, it enlightens, and it is prophetic in the sense that prophecy can anticipate what is likely to happen given current patterns and circumstances. The book is global in scale as its title suggests and speaks of many issues besides the Iraq War. I found out about this book from watching Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. Great book O'Reilly!!!
An excellent read January 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent read. Highly recommend it to the folks out there who say the US should quit Iraq and the follow on GWOT. Not all the ideas Peters presents are Politically Correct, however, if we are going to win the "War on Terror" then we must face the facts, and be prepared to do whats necessary to win.
 Politically Incorrect But Right On Track--For The Most Part January 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
No right-minded person can question that Ralph Peters is knowledgeable in the fields of military and international affairs. One can applaud Mr. Peters' desire to travel the world uncovering stories that do not make the headlines. "Wars of Blood and Faith," a collection of Mr. Peters' articles from the Armed Forces Journal, the New York Post, and other newspapers, is a product of this experience. Mr. Peters makes his various arguments in a succinct and stark fashion, making his work viscerally enjoyable for the reader.
On a substantive level, Mr. Peters makes multiple arguments that I thik need to be made in policy-making circles. There have always been sacred cows in international relations, as there are in many other fields, but the status of the world no longer permits the survival of those presently existing. We, as a nation and a people, must come to grips with the reality that wars require killing and if we do not kill our enemies they will kill us.
Mr. Peters makes the argument that diplomacy is overrated and is ill-equipped to solve the problems facing our nation in their entirety. I think that this argument is valid to a certain extent, given what has been said above regarding killing. I do not, however, think that diplomacy has no place in America's foreign policy. Not all of our enemies share an equal level of hate for this nation and those who find themselves as our enemy because of political or even economic reasons might be defeated by means other that death.
The next sacred cow of American political life that Mr. Peters argues must be sacrificed is the avoidance in mainstream discourse of cultural, social, or religious explanations for the current state of the world. To avoid offending extremists and Muslims, we state that all people desire freedom above all else, blindly (or willfully?) ignorant of the implausibility of such a statement.
On the whole I found Mr. Peters' work to be insightful and well-written. Though I disagree with his attacks on the diplomatic and academic corps, I find the remainder of his arguments to be thought-provoking and a little taste of the large dose of truth that Americans need.
An Insightful and Unpretentious Observer of Modern War and Strategy January 12, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ralph Peters has a clarity of vision and a logical belief system that is as well founded in history as it is commendable, while at the same time as believable as it is shocking. A former Army intelligence officer with over 20 years of military experience he is not only incredibly knowledgable of history but has the rarer ability to actually draw lessons from it and apply them to modern situations. He is also widely traveled, and looks at the world without the pretensions of political correctness or any other ideological bent, analyzing what he sees with an acutely strategic mind.
This book is the first I have read by him and certainly won't be the last. He cuts straight to the bone with a fierce and enjoyable writing style. Wars of Blood and Faith is a collection of newspaper articles and magazine submissions written from 2006 to early 2007, thus before the surge, and is divided into several subjects ranging basically from the war on terror, to Iraq, to the Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, to the Home Front, and finally to the wider world than the US and the Middle East. Most of these articles are trying to explain what is happening in the war on terror, and to proscribe how it should be fought. His cure for the cancer of terror and islamofacism is elegant and ruthless, shelve our concern for intrusive morality on the battlefield (such morality is uitable and indeed even necessary for civil society) and fight hard, which means killing, and fight with the knowledge that the most immoral thing that could happen would be for the west to lose this war. He brings a lot more nuance, strategic thought, and historical knowledge to bear than this, which makes his conclusions all the more sound.
As a collection of essays basically the one flaw is that several themes (including several catchphrases) are needlessly repeated, and each thought is constrained to a small number of pages. Even so many of his thought will surprise you and inform you and are very worth reading.
I hope to read more Ralph Peters books and that they are full texts and not collections of small articles since he is a thinker who clearly deserves such room to fully explain his ideas.
Highly recommended!
Chapters chart the growing dangers December 4, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Strategist Ralph Peters here reveals one of the most important world trends affecting security and military concerns in our time: the shift from ideology to a violent clash between ethnicity and religion, which in turns fosters terrorism and genocide on a global scale. American foreign policy and military structures aren't prepared to adapt to this shift, Peters argues; chapters chart the growing dangers, including the proliferation of nuclear weapons enemies won't fear to use.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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