Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

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Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
by Philip Bobbitt
from Knopf

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A book every politican/militaty leader should read and understand
  Terror and Consent has opened my eyes and made me aware that warfare in the 21st century has changed drastrically. I picked up on this book when I heard Senator McCain claim he takes it everywhere. We no longer will be fighting nation states like China or Russia unless there is a huge miscalulation; rather we will be in conflict with market states; that is those states without borders where globalization has transformed war from nation states waging war against one another using conventional forces to... more info

• Many interesting arguments for the open minded
  As opposed to assumptions, prejudices and irrationality, well argued and well referenced. He analyses the "whirlpool of reasoning" surrounding the "terrorism" threat. Interesting information supporting the arguments places the work in context for the 21st century - eg, the US National Security Agency estimated that by the end of 2007 the Internet carried 647 petabytes a day (the entire Library of Congress 130 million items including 30 million books, represent only .02 petabytes) (p.314). We are now in a... more info

• bordering on fraudulent
  well, not this book actually, but a related book by Parag Khanna titled The Second World.
  Some of the various, and numerous, factual errors that riddle the book are relatively trivial, but suggest serious sloppiness and disregard for getting facts right. For example, Yugoslavia was not part of Warsaw pact, as Khanna states. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was appointed to office in 1992 by Boris Yeltsin, and not by Vladimir Putin. Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Albania are not all smaller by... more info

• Transformational
  Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
  This book is beyond question the most illuminating discourse on the subject I can imagine. The thinking is clear and yet very expansive and the subject is of urgent concern to every citizen of the world. I believe that only those who are blinded by religiously held preconceptions will fail to be transformed by this amazing book. So many myths with which we pupulate our contemporary thought and discussions are demolished that it would be... more info

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