Recently Greenhill Military Book News published information about the new Fighting for the Future by Ralph Peters, published by Stackpole Books. This attracted attention, and we provide a further quotation from this most stimulating book about today's, and tomorrow's, warfare: What guidelines will help us to accomplish urban (or other) missions successfully? In future operations, whether in 1999 or 2029, the U.S. military should strive to follow tenets such as these: 1. Extract a clear mission statement from decision-makers. 2. Tell the American people that there will be friendly casualties. 3. Establish unity of command and purpose. 4. Impose rules of engagement that favour U.S. forces, not the enemy. 5. Deploy more combat power than you think you need, then increase it. 6. Operate offensively, never passively or defensively, and operate continuously. 7. Never allow local inhabitants to congregate en masse. 8. Do the job fast. If the job can't be done fast, get somebody else to do it. 9. Hand off the pacified city to non U.S. peacekeepers as soon as possible. 10. From first to last, fight and win the information war on all fronts. The physical contours of warfare have changed dramatically in our time, and they will continue to evolve. Thinking about the problem is a first step. The next step is to begin to prepare our remarkable military for reality. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 95 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com