Introduction: Making mud pies in the sky
The culture of future conflict
Our soldiers, their cities
The human terrain of urban operations
When devils walk the earth
Stability, America's enemy
The black art of intelligence
Atlantis, the ideological superpower
The Goddess of the Southern Seas
The shape of wars to come
Why Clausewitz had it backward
12 myths of twenty-first century war
War's irrational motivators
Trapping ourselves in Afghanistan
