Advance Praise

"Hammes explains the nasty, long-term, broad-spectrum wars we have fought and will continue to fight. It stands in sharp contrast to the short, high-tech, clean war the Defense Department is planning for. He focuses on how to win the war rather than just winning battles."
—General Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Former commander of CENTCOM, U.S. Central Command, the headquarters responsible for the Middle East)

"Colonel Hammes cuts to the quick in defining the conundrum of dealing with twenty-first century warfare . . . His is a controversial analysis which is bound to raise the hackles of today's techno warriors."
—Bernard Trainor, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.), NBC News military analyst, coauthor of The Generals