The author of this book is a military historian and tends to be somewhat flat-footed when dealing with questions of religion and culture, but since the issues that continue to propel World War III forward are not fundamentally religious or cultural, such criticism is secondary. Hear him on just one of the reasons for this war of perpetuity:
"...some individuals and institutions actually benefit from an armed conflict that drags on and on. Those benefits are immediate and tangible. They come in the form of profits, jobs, and campaign contributions. For the military-industrial complex and its beneficiaries, perpetual war is not necessarily bad news. The alacrity with which the national security apparatus 'discovered' the Greater Middle East just as the Cold War was ending does not qualify as coincidental." [page 369, emphasis added].
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