Fire Starters How America Can Defeat Autocrats Without Starting World War III
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.04.2027
Verlag
St. Martin's Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,5/2,5 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-250-43014-4
The West is losing a war it refuses to admit it's fighting.
For decades, the United States has relied on a military built for a world that no longer exists. While we focus on aircraft carriers and stealth jets, our adversaries have moved the battlefield into shadows and our minds. From the troll farms of St. Petersburg to the paramilitary outposts of the South China Sea, autocracies are using subversion, deception, and "sneaky war" to hollow out democracy from within-all while staying just below the threshold of nuclear conflict.
Victory in the twenty-first century belongs to the fire starters.
Sean McFate, a former paratrooper and private military contractor, argues that to save democracy, we must master the "dark arts" of conflict. This isn't about traditional invasion; it's about constructive chaos. McFate opens with the chilling account of the Battle of Khasham, where a small group of U.S. forces obliterated hundreds of Russian mercenaries in the Syrian desert without sparking World War III. It was a masterclass in plausible deniability-and a blueprint for the future.
We cannot defend the rules-based order by following the old rules.
Drawing on high-stakes covert operations and hushed global crises, Fire Starters provides a provocative roadmap for dismantling autocracies without firing a shot that starts a mushroom cloud. This is a manual for shadow war, showing how America can weaponize information, leverage networks, and flip the script on dictators who think they've already won.
The choice is simple: learn to fight in the gray zone, or watch the light of democracy go out.
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