Endless war : Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western civilization
Record details
- ISBN: 081174471X
- ISBN: 9780811744713
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)
remote - Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2011, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: History and hysteria -- pt. I: The war we pretend away -- Crescent triumphant! -- Crescent descending -- When Muslim armies won -- pt. II: The devils these days -- The world after the "age of ideology" -- Dream warriors -- Faith's civil wars -- Better than genocide -- America's two terror wars -- The global nuclear underground -- Tribes vs. democracy -- Man on the move -- Al Qaʹeda's market crash -- Why Putin should scare us -- The halfway war -- Taliban from outer space -- Ghost states: "inconvenient" reality -- Border bloodbath -- pt. III: Fit to fight -- Wanted: occupation doctrine -- Learning to lose -- The geezer brigade -- Bribing troops to quit -- Dishonest doctrine -- Dethroning the King -- Fighting words -- Learning from Georgia -- The damage done -- COIN lies we love -- The no-victory lie -- pt. IV: Endless wars -- Where are the strategists? -- 12 myths of twenty-first-century war -- Assessing the surge -- What "bomb Iran" really takes -- War's irrational motivators -- Wishful thinking and indecisive wars -- Trapping ourselves in Afghanistan. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Terrorism -- Religious aspects Violence -- Religious aspects East and West Islam and world politics Islamic civilization Civilization, Western Comparative civilization |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |