Fighting for the Future

Since initial its publication in 1999, Ralph Peters' book has been shown to have been almost prophetic in its insights and predictions of future threats to the United States and the radical overhaul required of the defense establishment in order to face these threats. He calls for a complete reassessment of jaded theories and an overhaul of out-dated concepts of war and military power. Ralph Peters' gripping account demonstrates that the wars to come will be quite unlike anything that has gone before - a principle amply proved on 11 September when Peters was shown, tragically, to have been right. Fighting for the Future is a compelling account which champions the theory that the time has come for a complete change of policy and revision of the very basics of the art of war within the American military establishment. Despite the United States being at the forefront of international politics, as the only global superpower, its doctrine for war is still based on a barely modified version of Cold War principles and fails to assimilate the manifest threat of 'unconventional' warfare. This controversial book lucidly points out the errors of a military caste cherishing the familiar and demands a wholly new policy in which America will have to come to terms with the new kind of enemy in a new culture of conflict.