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Never Quit the Fight. By Ralph Peters. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006,350 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Chris Timmers.
From 2003 through early 2006, this collection of newspaper and magazine columns by Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer, address mostly the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Peters' insights are quick witted, insightful, and occasionally humorous. No reader will regard time spent with this book as wasted.
The fighting as it progresses in the Middle East as reported by the networks appears to be pretty much a one-sided affair: more U.S. Soldiers and Marines dying month after month while the media giddily tallies our losses, never mentioning the number of terrorists killed and captured. Or the increasing number of towns and cities secured. Or the new schools being bui It. Or the water treatment facilities and power plants brought on line.
The broadcast and print media in this country are nothing short of shameful in their reporting on the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But at last a balanced, objective assessment of these conflicts is available from Ralph Peters whose service in various intelligence assignments over 20 years renders him a bonafide, unimpeachable source and observer. He brings common sense and lucid analysis completely lacking in our newspapers and...