6/22/2023 0 Comments Red Army by Ralph Peters![]() ![]() ![]() This book does not presuppose that a war is either imminent or inevitable - indeed, the declarations of Mikhael Gorbachev offer grounds for careful optimism - and it should be clear from the events described in these pages that war is not becoming any more attractive an option for the solution of our problems as military technology improves. ![]() As a citizen of the United States, I place a value beyond words on the preservation of western civilization (with all its discontents), yet I cannot rationalize the sacrifice of a single American soldier’s life because we acquiesced to folly in fear of an ally’s tantrum. ![]() NATO has tremendous latent combat power that may fail to show to full effect on the battlefield simply because we have all been so anxious to avoid sober self-criticism in peacetime. I am personally firmly committed to this most successful of all alliances, but I also believe that we have allowed NATO to evolve into something of a spoiled child at an unacceptable relative cost to the security and economy of the United States. This book is hard on NATO, because everyone else is so anxious to handle it with exaggerated delicacy. ![]()
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