{"title":"Sean McFate","description":"Sean McFate is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, an Associate Professor at the National Defense University, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. Previously, he lived and worked in Africa for DynCorp International, a company that provides international security services. He was also an officer and paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.","products":[{"product_id":"the-new-rules-of-war-how-america-can-win-against-russia-china-and-other-threats-paperback","title":"The New Rules of War: How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Stunning. 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But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed--and rule the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Rules of War\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, fascinating exploration of war--past, present and future--and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar is timeless. Some things change--weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives--but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of Durable Disorder--a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China's rise, Russia's resurgence, America's retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. A master of military strategy, Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He's seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? McFate calls upon the legends of military study Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience, and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and 'nation states' have less. With examples from military history including the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and 'shadow' warfare, and much more. McFate's new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Rules of War\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the strategic atrophyplaguing Western armies and provides a playbook for victory in this new era of global threats: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eConventional War is Dead: \u003c\/b\u003e Learn why World War II-style warfare is obsolete and how clinging to it guarantees defeat against today's unconventional enemies, from rogue states to terrorist organizations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Return of Mercenaries: \u003c\/b\u003e Explore the rise of private military contractors and for-profit warriors, a booming industry that is changing the business of war and creating new kinds of superpowers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eShadow Warfare: \u003c\/b\u003e Understand how modern conflicts are won not with firepower, but with plausible deniability, weaponized information, and strategic subversion designed to manipulate an enemy's perception of reality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA New Grand Strategy: \u003c\/b\u003e Move beyond battlefield tactics to grasp the new political nature of war, where victory is fungible and the most effective weapons may not fire bullets at all.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare--past, present, and future--and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne Division veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar is timeless. Some things change--weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives--but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of \"durable disorder\"--a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China's rise, Russia's resurgence, America's retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He's seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcFate calls upon the legends of military study--Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience--and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and nation-states have less. With examples from the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and others, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and \"shadow\" warfare, and much more. McFate's new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these principles are ancient, others are new, but all will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them, he argues we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed--and rule the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365574574303,"sku":"9780062843593","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lLTiBhdGfo9780062843593.webp?v=1789066456"},{"product_id":"the-modern-mercenary-private-armies-and-what-they-mean-for-world-order-paperback","title":"The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor DynCorp International. Throughout the world, similar scenarios are playing out daily. The United States can no longer go to war without contractors. Yet we don't know much about the industry's structure, its operations, or where it's heading. Typically led by ex-military men, contractor firms are by their very nature secretive. Even the U.S. government-the entity that actually pays them-knows relatively little. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Modern Mercenary\u003c\/em\u003e, Sean McFate lays bare this opaque world, explaining the economic structure of the industry and showing in detail how firms operate on the ground. A former U.S. Army paratrooper and private military contractor, McFate provides an unparalleled perspective into the nuts and bolts of the industry, as well as a sobering prognosis for the future of war. While at present, the U.S. government and U.S. firms dominate the market, private military companies are emerging from other countries, and warlords and militias have restyled themselves as private security companies in places like Afghanistan and Somalia. To understand how the proliferation of private forces may influence international relations, McFate looks back to the European Middle Ages, when mercenaries were common and contract warfare the norm. He concludes that international relations in the twenty-first century may have more in common with the twelfth century than the twentieth. 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To complete the mission and keep his men safe, the battle-hardened Locke must use every skill he has to defeat a fanatical enemy on the ground--while a duplicitous adversary much closer to home waits for his chance to strike. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Paris, a motorcade is attacked by masked men who corner a Saudi prince and steal the case handcuffed to his wrist. A thousand miles away in Istanbul, the prince's brother narrowly escapes a black ops ambush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, military contractor Tom Locke is asked to find the son of a government official in ISIS-infected Iraq. What Locke doesn't know is that multiple sides of a clandestine war are scrambling to find the prince, and that his father may be using him to topple the Saudi government. 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