The Field of Fight, Lieutenant General Ret. Michael T. Flynn
The Field of Fight, Lieutenant General Ret. Michael T. Flynn
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The Field of Fight
How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies

Bestseller

Author: Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn, Michael Ledeen

Narrator: Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn

Unabridged: 4 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016


Synopsis

A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave danger we face in the war on terror—and will continue to face—until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life.

Flynn spent more than thirty three years in Army intelligence, and as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency worked closely with Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus, Admiral Mike Mullen, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and other policy, defense, intelligence, and war-fighting leaders. From coordinating on-the-ground operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, to building reliable intelligence networks, to preparing strategic plans for fighting terrorism, Flynn has been a firsthand witness to government screw-ups, smokescreens, and censored information that our leaders don’t want us to know.

The Field of Fight succinctly lays out why we have failed to stop terrorist groups from growing, and what we must do to stop them. The core message is that if you understand your enemies, it’s a lot easier to defeat them—but because our government has concealed the actions of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and groups like ISIS and al Qaeda, and the role of Iran in the rise of radical Islam, we don’t fully understand the enormity of the threat they pose against us.

A call to action that is sensible, informed, and original, The Field of Fight asserts that we must find a way to not only fight better, but to win.

About Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn

Lt. General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn spent thirty-three years as an intelligence officer and was just named National Security Adviser by President-elect Donald Trump. Flynn has served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Senior Military Intelligence Officer in the Department of Defense. He also founded the Flynn Intel Group, a commercial, government, and international consulting firm. He lives in Virginia.

About Michael Ledeen

Dr. Michael Ledeen is the author of more than 35 books, including Accomplice to Evil and Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles. He is Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State and consultant to the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

MUST READ, MUST READ, MUST READ! The world is changing and you may not even understand or know just how much it is changing and why. It is impossible for me to recommend General Michael Flynn's book, The Field of Fight as much as I could put into words. General Flynn not only lays out the problems t......more

Goodreads review by Gavin

I confess that I came to this book with a few prejudices, but I came away after reading it thinking that General Flynn and Michael Ledeen have it exactly right. We face an existential threat from Radical Islamists. Four key points in how to win: "1. Destroy jihadi armies, and killing or capturing thei......more

Goodreads review by GM

An important book by the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and career intelligence officer, who worked with Gen. Petraeus and Gen. McChrystal and was central to many of the key intelligence breakthroughs that have been critical in countering Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and other terror......more

Goodreads review by David

To begin with, I will say that the book is not exactly what one might expect from a recently retired General. For starters, there were numerous spelling errors, an assortment of colloquialisms and some instances in which the prose took on a decidedly partisan tone. The means of documenting sources w......more

Goodreads review by Glen

Lt. General Michael Flynn spent most of his career in Army Intelligence. He worked with Generals McChrystal, Patraeus, and other men who fought the war on terror from its early days. They saw the war in Iraq falling into defeat, and they developed the programs and policies that turned it into an ast......more


Quotes

"The Field of Fight is a book worth reading by anyone concerned about the future security of America. It is both an engaging personal memoir by a great American soldier and military intelligence officer, General Mike Flynn, and a strategic plan by General Flynn of how to win the global war against radical Islam and its big power supporters. The leaders of the next American administration would benefit from reading The Field of Fight."

--Senator Joseph Lieberman