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Review of "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies" by Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen
By Carlos Lozada November 22 at 1:15 PM
THE FIELD OF FIGHT: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
By Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen
St. Martins Press. 194 pp. $26.99
Late in the presidential race, Donald Trump warned that his opponent would start a new world war. Youre going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton, he told Reuters.
As it turns out, there was no need to worry about Clintons hawkishness. The next world war is already here. Its a religious war. And the United States is losing.
Such is the vision of Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army three-star general who is set to become White House national security adviser after President-elect Trump takes the oath of office. Thus far, Flynn is best known for his fire-breathing speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer. But six days before leading GOP delegates in a frenzy of USA! and Lock her up! chants, Flynn published a book detailing this new fight in his telling, a multi-generational and civilizational conflict against radical Islam. Were in a world war, he writes, but very few Americans recognize it, and fewer still have any idea how to win it.
The Field of Fight, co-authored with foreign policy writer Michael Ledeen, offers an apocalyptic vision of Islam and terrorism, rails in Trumpian tones against political correctness, and assures readers of Flynns maverick credentials (even though calling yourself a maverick is pretty much the least mavericky thing possible). It also offers a tantalizing glimpse of the worldview Flynn may already be sharing with his new boss.
Though he calls for destroying the jihadi armies, Flynn is as focused on ideological warfare as he is on drone strikes or special operators. While Trump has said hell pursue a closer relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin, in his book Flynn regards Moscow as part of a worldwide enemy alliance against the United States and concludes that the Russian president is an untrustworthy partner in the fight against the Islamic State.
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AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)That they can blow that ISIS house down. They will learn soon enough. The tragedy is that it will come at the expense of how many more lives?
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)to one of their damn religious wars.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)If it ever comes to that.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)MFM008
(19,816 posts)Send your own.
dhill926
(16,346 posts)then asshole. Along with your family and friends. And any piece of shit that agrees with you. Leave us sane ones out of it...
rug
(82,333 posts)Generator
(7,770 posts)Hey I read that on twitter can't credit me. (what a nice third turn around for Germany though! And Drumpf is German-and the neo-Nazi's love "Europeans" so it's a natural fit)