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Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace Hardcover – January 1, 2003

by Ralph Peters (Author)
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In Beyond Baghdad, America's most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today's most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style--powerful, lively, and accessible--Peters' themes range from the lessons of recent combat experiences to a proposed revolutionary redesign of Washington's international strategy.

Certain to be widely read and heatedly discussed, Beyond Baghdad is destined to become one of the most influential books of the decade.

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  1. Print length
    368 pages
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    English
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    Stackpole Books
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    January 1, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0811700844
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0811700849
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  • Tom K.
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Down and Dirty Secret of Fighting Terrorism
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2010
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    The basic formula is simply: You fight to win. Until I read LTC Ralph Peters' books, I listened to the talking heads and deferred to the Pentagon experts with child-like awe confident our nation was in good hands. It IS in good hands: The Marines and Army grunts fighting this nasty not-so-little-war that threatens our very existence--if we allow it.Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Start with Fighting for the Future first
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2004
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    Peter's writes another outstanding work which continues to expand upon the ideas presented in his previous works(Fighting for the Future and Beyond Terror). He pulls no punches in his analysis of the shaping strategic environment, and elaborates upon his changing ideas for the threats facing the US in the 21st century. This work is somewhat lacking in originality of content (almost all of the chapters are reprints of previous articles, and present few new ideas like his previous works) but still packs the trade mark Peter's incitefulnes. Worth reading just for the one liners.
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  • William L. Callaway
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Baghdad
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    A very interestng book.. I think if your interested in the how, why and when of global terrosism, you will like ths book.
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  • Howard. Bluth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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    Mr Peters wrote another gem, as usual!
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  • Peter G. Tsouras
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - without reservation!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2003
    With this book Ralph Peters further establishes himself as the West's foremost strategist-philosopher. His was among the first serious voices raised well over a decade ago to alert the West to the growing strategic threat posed by the decay and failure of Third World societies and especially Islam. The cognitive dissonance among Muslims arising from the failure of Islam as a civilization generates the rage that fuels Osma bin Ladin and his followers, which he deftly argued in FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE and BEYOND TERROR. Now BEYOND BAGHDAD picks up the struggle to explain the strategies the West, and particularly the United States, must employ to win this "long twilight" struggle." Peters' conclusions are not based on a lifetime of comfortable academic reflection untroubled with the harsh realities of life. Indeed, they are based on a muscular involvement with life as it is around the world. There are few greater groundings in reality than growing up in a mining family, enlisting in the Army, winning a commission, learning German and Russian fluently, and roaming around the world on special missions for the Army.
    Peters blends eternal verities of man and civilizations at war with the specific problems of the age to mark him a philosopher of war to a depth Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, in their narrower spheres, never attempted. His essays travel the world to explore the cultural trends that offer the greatest strategic dangers and opportunities for the future. He identifies the United States as the world's center of gravity for modernization and for the unleashing of human potential, especially that of women, on a scale unrivalled by any other civilization. In doing so, the US has enraged the fossilized Islam of its Arab core. "Islamic terrorism is the violence of extreme desperation, symptomatic of the startling failure of Middle Eastern Islamic culture to compete with "the West" on a single productive front. Their failure is not our fault, but it is our problem." Peters observes that our obsession with the Middle East has obscured the serious potential for modernization of Islam elsewhere, in Africa, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia to which our attention should shift.
    His support for President Bush's strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq is argued in compelling terms. Overthrowing Saddam represented the priceless strategic opportunity to shock the Muslim world out of its rut and ease it into the modern world. To suggest, as another reviewer has, that he has been hoodwinked by an administration "bought and paid for by Zionists" is an outrageous canard. Peters, is his own man. He recognized that this was grand strategy at is boldest and most profound. Great opportunities were worth a great throw. This is what we elect presidents for. Peters adds, based on is own conclusions, the vital illumination of the vast cultural/military context and a logical articulation of that strategy that should make the administration green with envy.
    While supporting the grand strategy, Peters does not spare the rod in taking Rumsfeld and his senior aides to task for two serious failings. The first is Rumsfeld's espousal of the concept that a mix of high-tech, air power, and light ground forces is the warfare of the future. Funds for future high-tech development would cut deep into the expensive military manpower pockets, with the Army as bullseye. The results of this "light boots on the ground" approach in Afghanistan was the escape of bin Ladin at Tora Bora The result in Iraq was a twofold failure. First, against military advice, was the refusal to plan for the most vital element of the operation, the political transition from combat to the transformation of Iraq into the model for Islamic reform in the Middle East. Second, also against military advice, was to cheese pare the ground force component well below an acceptable level of risk and to hinder the transition phase. Responsible policy does not rely on the valor and skill of the troops to rescue you from feckless decisions. Rumsfeld's fixation on operational and theoretical means put strategic ends at risk.
    Underlying these failures is on an all too evident disdain for the leadership of military institutions they lead, dismissing them as mere "military janitors". "[A} number of Donald Rumsfeld's posse of commissars, creatures with no first-hand experience either of the military or of the savage harshness of the world, insisted that none of our generals or admirals or military veterans were worth a damn and that civilians who had never tied on a combat boot knew best how to wield our military. They ridiculed the voices of experience, even implying that those in uniform had a yellow streak, while the civilian lions safe at their Washington desks were models not only of wisdom but of courage."
    Peters was one of those "military janitors" whose essays were prescient in their accurate description of the strategic setting, the resulting operational requirements, the course and nature of operations, and the postwar challenges. Anyone wishing to be informed of the essence of the war would do better reading Peters essays in the New York Post than watching Rumsfeld's briefings.
    Peters ideas have been polished to deep gleam by the sharpness and sparkle of his prose. As he himself writes, "The notion that `serious' writing has to be as dull as mortgage paperwork had been foisted upon us by academics who couldn't write a grocery list without ten pages of footnotes. A writer's goal should be not to stretch out one small, frail conceit into a book the reader can barely lift, but to pack as many fierce ideas into one cleanly written essay or column a he or she can do. If you cannot say a thing simply and clearly, it simply means you have no clear idea of what you want to say." On is own terms, Peters delivers handsomely.
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  • Ed Hill
    1.0 out of 5 stars The Hatemonger speaks
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2004
    Mr. Peters is a rabid conservative partisan and known hatemonger who engages in peronsal insults. He is a disgrace to his country, and to the Miltary.
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  • Alexander Janums
    5.0 out of 5 stars plain common sense
    Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2004
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    If the US policymakers listened to Ralph Peters, the world would be a better, safer place.
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  • Dimitrios
    4.0 out of 5 stars Machine-gun bursts of common sense!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2004
    Ralph Peters has the talent to present his ideas with exemplary clarity without being repetitive or boring. Although he can't conceal his Republican sentiments and his contempt for the Clinton policy regarding the Al Qaeda and Iraqi threat, he gives a fine analysis of the current geostrategic environment and the kind of threats that Western civilization faces. His views regarding the militant Islam and Osama bin Laden are based on solid facts but they are rather stretched sometimes with conclusions like "extremist Islamists fear the girls". The epithets "killers" or "murderers" are also overused when he refers to Al Qaeda operatives, but I think that if it is a characteristic of the Islamic terrorists that we can't deny it's their immense courage and self-sacrifice (no matter the cause they are fighting for). US and the West must respect their opponents and their ferocity and not try to degrade them with epithets (it is understandable that during a war you have to cultivate hate against the enemy but this must not lead to fatal underestimation of his strengths). The best part of the book is in my opinion the second one ("Our Wars") which contains articles that Peters wrote before and during the Operation Iraqi Freedom. The author should be proud of his clear judgement and forethought when a lot of media people saw only doom and failure, and also for his courage to blame Defense Secretary and his entourage for their naive instistence to wage a war with inadequate land forces (a fact that became painfully obvious in the postwar Iraq).
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