Tom McInerny and Paul Vallely know well that America is at war today with an enemy every bit as dangerous as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union: Radical Islam. Like our past enemies, it is driven by a utopian, totalitarian ideology and rejects American-style freedom. But unlike them, it is not confined to particular nations and cannot be defeated solely through conventional warfare against enemy states.
Endgame is a blueprint for victory over these tenacious and bloodthirsty foes. It details the new strategy that America must adopt to fight the very new kind of war we're in, and reveals a wealth of inside information -- including the location of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
McInerny and Vallely aren't mere armchair strategists. They're retired generals of the Air Force and the Army who have devoted their lives to defending America. They also serve as military analysts for FOX News, which gives them access to up-to-the-minute reports and inside sources that know everything that's going on within the Pentagon, the CIA, and other government agencies. When other analysts were wringing their hands and whining about "quagmires" in Afghanistan and Iraq, they calmly predicted relatively easy and decisive American victories -- and they were right.
Endgame explores radical Islam's global Web of Terror, showing how Muslim terrorists have established, armed, and funded a large number of terrorist organizations -- al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Jemaah Islamiyah and others - that have committed atrocities across the globe. But their main target, say McInerny and Vallely, is America. They explain why the next major terrorist assault on the United States could be everyone's worst fear: an attack involving weapons of mass destruction. That's why, they argue compellingly, we must act now to destroy the terror masters before they can strike us. Among the revelations in Endgame:
- The inside story of how the strategy for the Afghan war developed in the White House and the Pentagon
- Why, despite our successes, we have not been nearly aggressive enough in the war on terror
- How we must respond to each of the eight countries that make up the principal elements of the international Web of Terror
- What America could do to reduce -- quickly and drastically -- the international threat from al Quaeda
- Overview: countries in which we should press for regime change, and others in which we should focus on regime preservation
- The key to achieving lasting success in Afghanistan
- Why some things that were touted in the 1990s as major victories against global terrorism were not all they were cracked up to be
- What Pakistan must do in order to prove itself to be our true ally in the War on Terror
- Why it was no real surprise that WMDs weren't immediately found by coalition forces in Iraq
- Iraq: why the worst thing we could do for the Iraqi people now would be to withdraw our forces from the country
- Four reasons why our campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq went so well
- Why it was so important for the U.S. to bring down the Taliban regime in Afghanistan -- and not just because it was closely allied with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda
- Iran: why it will fall even more easily than Iraq did, and may reform itself without American intervention
- What America must do now to aid the democratic forces in Iraq
- The little-known reason why so many states in the Muslim world have failed so miserably -- and what the U.S. can and should do to help
- Why the stunning American victories in Afghanistan and Iraq should not have been as surprising as they were to international commentators and opinion-makers
- Saddam Hussein: three reasons why toppling his regime was the obvious next step in the terror war after the Afghanistan campaign
- North Korea: how, aside from selling nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology, it uses its nuke program for extortion
- The remarkable lesson that American military strategists have learned in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Syria: how it is a domino waiting to fall -- and why it's an ideal place to use America's dominant sea and air power
- Why the analysts who say that we should return to the Clintonian idea of counter-terrorism as law enforcement rather than military action are dead wrong
- Saudi Arabia: why it desperately needs a decent education system -- but why a quality education system is not enough
- A Palestinian homeland: the key to peace in the Middle East and victory over radical Islam? Why this idea is nothing more than a self-defeating, nonsensical dream
- The gamble that America should take to try to establish real peace between the Israelis and Palestinians
- Refuted: seven reasons why the Iraq campaign was a bad idea
- Why we need a reconfiguration of global alliances -- and how it has already begun
- What America is already doing to fight and win the ideological battle that is key to ultimate victory in the terror war
- Five freedoms that America must champion and make the cornerstone of new international alliances
- How our invasion of Iraq has damaged the cause of international terror
- Plus: a comprehensive reading list on issues related to the war on terror
McInerny and Vallely know and draw on the gritty, battle-hardened wisdom of the men and women on "the sharp edge": in the rifle companies, artillery batteries, tank platoons, submarines, and destroyers. During a visit to Baghdad, one young soldier told McInerny and Vallely that the war on terror can't be lost on the battlefield;
but it can be lost if the will of the American people falters.