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02241aam a2200337Ia 4500 001 9F9FE1D428FB11E49E7A85DBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140821010440 008 110131t20112010pau 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780811708234 (pbk.) 020 $a 0811708233 (pbk.) : 035 $a (OCoLC)699723847 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d GCD $d UKMGB $d VP@ $d CRH $d SZR $d BDX $d SILO 050 4 $a CB251 $b .P484 2011 100 1 $a Peters, Ralph, $d 1952- 245 10 $a Endless war : $b Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western civilization / $c Ralph Peters. 250 $a 1st pbk. ed. 260 $a Mechanicsburg, PA : $b Stackpole Books, $c 2011, c2010. 300 $a xiii, 273 p. ; $c 21 cm. 505 0 $a 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 Qa�da'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. 650 0 $a Comparative civilization. 650 0 $a Civilization, Western. 650 0 $a Islamic civilization. 650 0 $a Islam and world politics. 650 0 $a East and West. 650 0 $a Violence $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Terrorism $x Religious aspects. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204060606.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110042436.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F9FE1D428FB11E49E7A85DBDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search