Terror War and Peace: with De-Sanctification of Jihad

TERROR WAR AND PEACE / With De-Sanctification Of Jihad completes the Softpower Trilogy. The first work, PRINCIPIA IDEOLOGICA / A Treatise On Combatting Human Malignance, is the fundamental resource for the entire enterprise and beyond, providing deep and extensive theoretical foundations and fundamental and applied principles, with examples. The second work, ENDING THE BRONZE AGE, is a chapter by chapter summary of the PRINCIPIA, plus essential and detailed applications to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. This, the third work, TERROR WAR AND PEACE, is a black-&-white printout of the book by that name that was developed and first published as a color-enhanced website by that name. Now it is conveniently available in this book form -- plus the brief, powerful, quintessential essay, Global Security In Third Millennium.

TERROR WAR AND PEACE brings together a wealth of current international security material, key principles and methods from the first two works, and actual applications to combat terrorism -- rather than just terror -- as is the case everywhere else. The applications focus on nullifying the ideologies that drive, unify and claim to legitimate malignant movements. The idea is to bring to fruition a principle set forth in Sun Tzu’s ancient classic, The Art of War (ca, 360 BC): "The acme of skill is not to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles. The acme of skill is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Oxford University Press, 1963, page 77). TERROR... shows that in order to accomplish that in the War On Terrorism, the most major and essential of the applications it provides is the De-Sanctification of Jihad -- a requirement and possibility that until the appearance of this work has been totally unrecognized. That is accomplished and provided in great detail in this book, resulting in the nullification of Islamic Jihad.

All told, TERROR WAR AND PEACE is a compact, comprehensive and powerful weapon -- a softpower weapon - that is essential for fighting and winning the War Against Terrorism, and to reduce the carnage and destruction of terrors during the War. At the same time it introduces into societal, national, international and transnational affairs the missing ideological dimension.