The Next War: Third Edition

by Peter Schweizer and Caspar Weinberger

Book Overview

You can read The Next War as a military novel and find it riveting This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895264471
• ISBN13: 9780895264473
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A truley scary scenario.

Now even thought this book was written in the late 1990s it is still a good read. For anybody who thinks that our armed forces are invincible should read this. It points out the shortcommings in the way our government handles the military.

Read now, it's going to be a shocker...

If you read this in '96 when the book was first published you may have thought the ideas were outlandish. But alas, now nine years later all of the scenarios are quite possible. With the current state of the world as it is, the state of the US military and American public sentiment with its overwhelming left-wing liberal pacifist views, this ends up being an extremely scary look into the future. If Americans don't wake up and realize that the world not only despises the US but will do everything possible to stake their claim on resources the American public has taken for granted, then we could be learning Chinese or Japanese in the near future. Not because we want to either. Take a look out your window and think about what really goes into your big manly testosterone-filled SUV or truck that you use to go cruising around in for purposes other than what it was intended for. There are a ba-zillion Chinese that would just love to be able to use all of those natural resources to, not fuel their car or truck, but to simply stay alive, raise crops more efficiently, or maybe have some heat for a couple of hours a day. Although this is obviously fiction, some of the aspects of immigration and natural resource acquisition ring true in today's world of Mexican/US relations concerning cooperation in the anti-drug/counterterrorism campaign as well as the Japanese/US relations in the Pacific. Afterall, the Japanese didn't attack Pearl Harbor "for the Axis" in '41, they bombed Pearl Harbor for the Japanese. Possession and control of natural resources makes governments do some crazy things...

Fiction becoming reality.

This book may look very dreamer. But the Iran chapter looks very much like the current Afgan-terrorist crisis. When i started reading this book it looked to me very Clancy Style but not any more after looking at the twin towers colapse. As a mexican the scenario regarding Mexico and the narcotic-democracy its totally possible, i hope it will never happen. I recommend this book very much to you, the future vision of a Defense Secretary under the greatest president of the XX century must be considered. Enjoy.

Casper is a thinking man!

Do you think that we could win a war in the event one ever broke out? Are our current manpower levels enough to thwart off attacks from third world dictators? Can we suppress outbreaks of violence in the world?In this 450 plus page book, which may house hypothetical situations, you'll read what could happen. You find yourself asking questions about our military leadership and you will even start to look at the world in a different light.Weinberger's knowledge of military tactics, strategy and defense planning our unmatched and unparalleled. He was Secretary of Defense for over seven years. His knowledge of world politics is with a doubt superb.Most impressive is the ability to show the complexity of the situations and show how the United States armed forces are matched against the world. Weinberger's works is nothing short of a miraculous - excellent reading!

A disturbing view of future world conflicts.

I enjoyed this book, despite the fact that there were several military items that were given to excede their specifications. Otherwise, it is a book for all those who have seen the significant reducton in US Armed Forces technology. My favorite is the new Russian empire scenario.