Ralph Peters is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, author, and strategic analyst known for his commentary on military affairs and geopolitics. A prolific writer of both fiction and nonfiction, he has been a prominent voice on national security issues. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard in 2006, covering topics including military strategy, foreign policy, and geopolitical trends.
THE SUPERANNUATED membership of the Iraq Study Group shepherded by former secretary of state James Baker conjures a line from the film The Sixth Sense: "I see dead people." Two centuries ago, Europeans dreaming of reform and freedom must have felt just as crestfallen as they watched their…
Globalization is real, but its power to improve the lot of humankind has been madly oversold. Globalization enthralls and binds together a new aristocracy--the golden crust on the human loaf--but the remaining billions, who lack the culture and confidence to benefit from "one world," have begun to…
REVOLUTIONS NOTORIOUSLY IMPRISON THEIR MOST committed supporters. Intellectually, influential elements within our military are locked inside the cells of the Revolution in Military Affairs--the doctrinal cult of the past decade that preaches that technological leaps will transcend millennia-old…