Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century Book

Introduction: Where We Are Now     X
The Twenty-First Century Military
The Shape of Wars to Come     3
Living, and Dying, with Suicide Bombers     15
Shattering Warfare's Rules     18
Heroes with Bulldozers     20
Bloodless Theories, Bloody Wars     23
Hawks for Dissent     30
Why Clausewitz Had It Backward     38
The Hearts-and-Minds Myth     46
The Myth of Immaculate Warfare     54
Studying War     57
Politically Correct War     60
The Man Who Wouldn't Listen     64
Killing with Kindness     67
Letter to the New Secretary     75
Quantitative Incompetence     78
Rebels and Religion     81
Progress and Peril     90
Iraq and Its Neighbors
What Now, Lieutenant?: Another Day in Iraq     101
Does Iran Want War?     111
Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look     115
Kill, Don't Capture     123
Back to Baghdad     126
Arabs' Last Chance     129
Afghan Reality     132
9/11: Five Years On     135
Is Pakistan Coming Apart?     139
Cradleof Hate     142
Kill Muqtada Now     145
Last Gasps in Iraq     147
Plan B for Iraq     151
Iraq's Uncivil War     161
The Iraq Mutiny?     164
From Metternich to Jim Baker: The High Price of Restoring the Ancien Regime     167
Why They Got It Wrong     171
A Lesson for Tyrants     175
King David Returns     178
Eyeing Iran     181
W's Last Chance     184
Talk Is Cheap     187
Ugly Choices: Tough Bets in Mideast     190
Sunni Vs. Shi'a: It's Not All Islam     194
The Home Front
Spies & Lies     199
Our Strategic Intelligence Problem     203
Secrets for Sale-Cheap     211
Lynching the Marines     214
The New Combatants     217
Israel's Struggle
Kicking Out Corruption     233
Tragedy of Errors     236
Israel's New Fear     239
Can Israel Win?     242
Target: Hezbollah     246
The Road to Qana     249
Defying Terror     252
Soldiers' Grit in "Organized Mess" of War     254
Watching the War      257
Ghost Towns of War     260
NYer Hangs Tough     263
Destination: Stalemate     265
Bloody Border     268
Lessons So Far     271
Hezbollah 3, Israel 0     274
Moment of Truth     278
Lessons from Lebanon: The New Model Terrorist Army     282
The World Beyond
Waters of Wealth and War: The Crucial Indian Ocean     293
The "Cartoon Riots": Bigots on Both Sides     302
The Worst Plague     305
Emerging Hot Spots     308
Democracy's Global Crisis     310
Russian Roulette     314
French Twisted     316
Nigerian Nightmare     319
The Undecided Continent: The New Struggle for Africa     322
The "Eurabia" Myth     332
The Damned of Darfur     335
Terror's Surprise Loss-Islamists Fold in Somalia     338
Terrorizing Terrorists     341
Strategic Invisibility     344
Return of the Tribes     356