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Originally Posted by tk27
The thing I find about Ralph Peters’ work is that it continually serves as a reality kick to the face, and I can’t help but find it refreshing and find myself asking for more. His last book New Glory was fantastic, and provided me with a new perspective on strategic issues. The man is a superb essayist and independent mind. His February article in Armed Forces Journal; Survival strategy: Middle Eastern Islam, Darwin and terrorism has spurred a lot of thought with me and has brought me down a new road in my research.
Needless to say I am looking forward to reading Never Quite the Fight. The two reviews I have read speak highly of it; one by Colonel, ret. Jerry D. Morelock, Phd, and the other by Robert D. Steele, former military intel and CIA. |
Dr. Morelock is an estute historian, he was the Chief of the Combat Studies Institute at Ft. Leavenworth when I was there.
I would trust what he says.
Peters has an excellent mind and is a gifted writer. Occasionally I disagree with him on some small point, but normally, he is one of my favorite writers.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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