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.
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