The Virtual American Empire: War, Faith, and Power

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Part 1: The Paradoxical Logic of Strategy 1. Give War a Chance 2. Why We Need an Incoherent Foreign Policy 3. Free Will and Predestination in U.S.-China Strategic Relations 4. Reagan the Astute Part 2: Post-Cold War Hot Wars 5. To Intervene or Not to Intervene 6. NATO Started Bombing to Help Milosevic 7. Pablo Escobar and the War on Drugs 8. The Global Rise of Separatism: It’s Not Just Nationalism 9. Bandenkrieg Part 3: America at War 10. The Warning 11. Terrorism by Subcontractor 12. Iraq: How to Regain the Initiative 13. Iraq: The Logic of Disengagement 14. Who is the Enemy? 15. Snobs Make Better Spooks Part 4: Post-Heroic War 16. When Military Reform Fails 17. Where are the Great Powers Now? 18. Toward Post-Heroic Warfare 19. Post-Heroic Military Policy 20. The True Military Revolution at Last Part 5: Byzantium: Faith and Power 21. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire 22. Byzantine Art 23. Byzantine Court Culture Part 6: Amazon Misadventures 24. Drugs, Crime, and Corruption 25. Trinidad 26. The Sane Cow Syndrome 27. The Good in Barbed Wire Part 7: Economics 28. The Russian Mafia: Does It Deserve the Nobel Prize in Economics? 29. The Secret the Soviets Should have Stolen 30. The Gospel According to Greenspan 31. The New Bolshevism