Posted on 08/20/2005 1:53:56 PM PDT by Valin
After Words: Ralph Peters interviewed by Anatol Lieven Description: This week on After Words Ralph Peters, a retired military officer argues for a realignment of U.S. engagements abroad and reforming its military and diplomatic corps in his critique of national strategy titled, "New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy." He is interviewed by Anatol Lieven, journalist & Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of "America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism."
Sunday, August 21 at 9:00 pm and at 6:00 pm
Author Bio: Ralph Peters is a writer, strategist, commentator and retired military officer. He is the author of 20 books and several columns, articles and essays. Also a novelist, under his own name and as Owen Parry, Ralph Peters has written a number of bestsellers with international settings as well as prize-winning historical novels about the American Civil War. Anatol Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Lieven previously covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union and Russia for The Times (London); and India as a freelance journalist. He was also an editor at the International Institute for Strategic studies in London, where he worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC. Mr. Lieven is the author of numerous books on foreign policy, and his latest is titled "America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
Book Description Since World War II, Americans have been the world’s true revolutionaries, expanding the frontiers of human liberty by fighting and winning the cold war. But now that we’re fighting the much more complicated war on terror, many observers wonder if our glory days are behind us. Ralph Peters, a controversial strategist and respected expert on military and intelligence issues, argues that the United States is actually poised for even greater success in the twenty-first century—if our leaders make the right decisions about the opportunities and dangers we face today. In New Glory, he offers a strategic tour of the globe’s hot spots and how we should respond to the challenges they pose.
Peters criticizes the Bush administration for over-relying on high technology and defense contractors in the Iraq war and for not committing enough troops and being too afraid of casualties to do the job properly. He also offers a sharp analysis of what’s wrong with our intelligence system and why the changes proposed by the 9/11 Commission aren’t enough.
He then takes readers far beyond Iraq and the Middle East on a lively tour of other regions—including Latin America, Africa, and deeply troubled Europe—that rarely get serious attention in the media.
Drawing on his twenty-five years of experience in more than sixty countries, Peters shatters the dogmas of both left and right in this manifesto for a much more assertive and visionary U.S. foreign policy.
A book that would seem to be worth reading...
Peters hammered Rumsfeld and the neo-cons in the Pentagon pretty good.
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