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New Glory : Expanding America's Global Supremacy Hardcover – Bargain Price, August 18, 2005

by Ralph Peters (Author)
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America is at a strategic crossroads. As the world's lone superpower, we face savage hostility, at home and abroad, from critics furious over our power and success—and their own failure. Should we retreat from the struggle for human freedom to please religious extremists, decayed European powers, and an irresponsible global media? Absolutely not, according to Ralph Peters, a strategist with an unrivaled record of predicting future threats. America's heroic past should make us proud, but we should embrace the possibility of an even greater future. New glory will augment the old in the years ahead—if our leaders make the right decisions today.In this sweeping, eye-opening book, Peters delivers an insider's critique of our intelligence system and our overstretched military before describing an innovative strategy befitting the greatest (and most virtuous) power in history. “Peters has produced a dynamic, intellectually challenging, must-read book…It needs to be in the hands of all policy-makers—and all those who vote for them.” —The New York Post “Peters is an astute and historically informed observer of the world's cultures and politics, so the vision he offers in New Glory manages to be not just inspiring but also highly realistic.” —The National Review “For all its thunder and lightning, New Glory is a work of optimism, written by an author steeped in history—and theology and geopolitics and even fine art. Academics will dismiss this book. Then Again, Peters has little use for academics, and says so.” —The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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  4. Publication date
    August 18, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.02 x 9.3 inches
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  • Dan Cragg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Peters Hath Murdered Sleep!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2005
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    I tell people the reason I'm so ugly is becuase I spend my nights reading books like NEW GLORY instead of getting my rest. Well, who needs sleep when we've got commentary like this on world affairs? Those who've read Mr. Peters' essays will not be disappointed here. NEW GLORY is Ralph Peters at his lucid, succinct, devastating best. Think-tankers, bureaucrats, leftists and neocons alike, and all the armchair dilettantes who infest the airwaves will not like this book because Mr. Peters pillories them mercilessly. Those people will feel threatened by Mr. Peters' ideas on what's wrong with our military and foreign policies and how to correct them. That is because they are the product of many years' actual experience as a soldier and world traveler, not academia or the E-Ring of the Pentagon or any of those other ivory towers where eggheads seek refuge from reality. One wonders if the hard, practical and cogent advice he gives here will have any effect on our current leadership. I doubt it, they're too deep into the swamp they've made of affairs. But I think the true value of a book like NEW GLORY is that it's aimed at the dynamic young men and women who will compose the next generation of leaders, capable young people who do know a hawk from a handsaw. If I'm right there is a new glory waiting us and Mr. Peters is its prophet.
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  • J. Adams
    5.0 out of 5 stars The future will decide
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2006
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    reading the hysterical review ( as usual) of the leftists who infect Publishers Weekly (try some prozac or something!!) i had to buy this book. Indeed, it is both great and bad, but mostly on the side of intelligent analysis based upon experience that extends beyond a desk chair.

    I guess you can sit back and read and digest, or stand up and puke as the Publishers Weakly crowd do, but the truth will out when NYC disappears under a mushroom cloud, and Peter's critics are no more able to share their idiocy, just because they "won" the debate but were incinerated by those whom they defended in the name of "free speech".

    Peters is not just a great observer, but a great writer. His use of the language puts him at the top of his class of anyone I've ever read with his military background. No wonder he did not fit in with the entrenched bureaucrats who infect the CIA, DIA, State Department, Pentagon, etc. and make us very vulnerable to the newest weapon of mass destruction, the single lunatic suicide bomber who is far more lethal than any nuclear weapon since he peels off rational thinkers one at a time instead of killing by the millions.
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  • Ben Franklin
    1.0 out of 5 stars War propaganda
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013
    War propaganda. There is a special place in hell for those that lie to promote more mass murder and imperialism.
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  • Baracas
    2.0 out of 5 stars Projecting an Empire, but who will pay?
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2006
    This book provides the basis for those that argue the US must, and should, save the world by promoting US control over strategic assets. But who will pay? The author wants to use military superiority, but lacks the international and national economic background to understand the costs and articulate a rational global policy. His reference to China lacks the necessary global financial perception. In the end, and thankfully, he is only a typical cheerleader for military options and will never be able to formulate a realistic strategy for world order. Buy this book if you want to limit your perceptions to a segment of the military and want to become a similar cheerleader.
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  • S. Ryan
    3.0 out of 5 stars Author has great 20/20 hindsight
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2005
    New Glory is an entertaining read. However, Peters seems to have a grudge against Rumsfeld and his "Neo-Con" advisors. This book is perfect for those who love the United States but hate the Bush Administration. Unfortunately for Peters, the people who love the United States usually don't hate the Bush Administration (disagree with, maybe, but hate, no) and those that hate the Administration usually don't love the United States (effusive protestations, not withstanding).
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  • Craig Matteson
    4.0 out of 5 stars A very different prescription for expanding America's global supremacy
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2005
    Have you ever been part of an ongoing conversation that had settled into two predictable sides and then someone new comes in and has points to make that are so different than what was presently being discussed? Either the conversation will absorb these new points and shift direction or the ideas will be rejected as too foreign and the points will never even be considered.

    Ralph Peters is a former colonel in the Army and an intelligence officer who is now an author of books of various types and a columnist. What he offers in this very interesting book is so different than the debate you will see, hear, and read in the popular media that it might be quite disconcerting. However, keep reading and get through the book and consider what he has to say. You might reject every point he makes and will still be better off having read and thought about what he has to say because it will sharpen your own beliefs and encourage you to dig more deeply into the material relating to what the author offers us in these pages.

    Mr. Peters says that America has a future as great as its past if it is willing to be intelligent, flexible, and fresh in its approaches to the complexities in the present world. He advocates moving away from our traditional ties to Europe because of their ossification and inwardness. They are too corrupt to do anything but to continue their decay. Instead, Peters advocates that America turn to building positive relations with South America and Africa, to work on influencing the non-Arab Muslims in Asia and India, and to rely on positive economic development with these groups rather than sheer military force.

    The author says that in the present War on Terror, which must be fought, we have not been fierce enough. We need to break the enemy and destroy him until he sues for peace. If all we want is to fight to bring them to the table to talk our enemy wins because not losing is enough to achieve their aims.

    Mr. Peters has no use for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He also thinks that the Air Force has been far too influential in military planning. We spend far too much on its projects that contribute almost nothing to our ability to actually wage war. The expensive weapons have to stay too far above the battlefield to provide the true air support needed to aid the men on the ground. Peters holds to the doctrine that war is awful and bloody and must be won by men driving the enemy from the field through violence and slaughter. It is ugly, but it is what war is about. To this end he advocates the abolition of the Air Force and to divide its assets between the Navy and the Army and to revive the Army Air Corps.

    Mr. Peters wants America to succeed, prosper, and add to its glory in the world. Whether or not he has the right prescription is up to you.

    This is a very different kind of discussion, but quite interesting and very much worth reading.
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