Ralph Peters, you make me laugh for your lack of research and lack of intelligence.
This guy is a retired army officer and being a former army captain myself, I'll bet the army got him a master's degree in international relations. That's a safe bet since he's authored 21 books along the same vein. I'll just bet those publishers kept going along with the expense of printing and promoting because they just knew his lack of research wouldn't make them any money! With that in mind....lack of intelligence? Well, it takes one to know one, I guess....