The rotting sore of Iraq, the spreading fires of Syria, the disaster of Libya are just precursor for the war-that-is-coming.
The conflagration is general. We have countries in flames: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.
Meanwhile other nations are smouldering: Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, France, Belgium and Israel/Palestine.
Refugees are pouring across the Mediterranean from North Africa and the Levant. There is no road forward from here that doesn’t involve at least a million deaths and probably more.
With a lifetime interest in the Middle East where he lived as a child, and drawing on a 30 years experience of politics and political journalism in London, Scotland and critically Belfast during the Troubles, Gordon Guthrie is able to tease out the complex strands of this knotty problem.
War Is Coming challenges the accepted wisdom in how we should respond to these challenges.
War Is Coming makes no pretence at having all the answers to a complex and uncertain geopolitical situation - but aims to pose the hard questions - about failure, about political and military strategy, about the domestic challenges we face and how to recover from a disastrous decade and a half of war.
The conflagration is general. We have countries in flames: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.
Meanwhile other nations are smouldering: Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, France, Belgium and Israel/Palestine.
Refugees are pouring across the Mediterranean from North Africa and the Levant. There is no road forward from here that doesn’t involve at least a million deaths and probably more.
With a lifetime interest in the Middle East where he lived as a child, and drawing on a 30 years experience of politics and political journalism in London, Scotland and critically Belfast during the Troubles, Gordon Guthrie is able to tease out the complex strands of this knotty problem.
War Is Coming challenges the accepted wisdom in how we should respond to these challenges.
War Is Coming makes no pretence at having all the answers to a complex and uncertain geopolitical situation - but aims to pose the hard questions - about failure, about political and military strategy, about the domestic challenges we face and how to recover from a disastrous decade and a half of war.
