Future: Tense: The Coming World Order - Softcover

?Compelling reading... for the context it provides in an historically amnesiac time? Literary Review of Canada ?If you plan on reading only one book this year, make this the one. In perfectly clear prose, with arguments as well-researched as they are compelling, this military expert explains why what we?re doing is mad? Metro Times, Detroit ?Brief, readable and probably pretty much right. He takes us beyond the usual platitudes about oil and George Bush?s Oedipal motivations to argue instead that what we?ve seen is a classic imperial move, an attempt to impose a Pax Americana on an increasingly multi-polar world. You?ve heard it before, sure, but here it?s more convincingly told? Arena ?Future:Tense is a timely and thought-provoking work? Evening Herald ?In language that steers refreshingly clear of jargon, Future: Tense is a measured and persuasive argument for why we should pull out of Iraq, right now? The Big Issue

Panoramic in vision and eloquent of style, Dyer's analysis is terrifying and profound (Herald)

The foundations of World War III are being laid today - this is the central message of "Future: Tense". The whole world needs America to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible, lest the stand-off between Islamists and American neo-conservatives escalates into a new global conflict. The terrorist threat is a red herring, and the radical Islamists' dream of a worldwide jihad against the West is a fantasy, but Washington's attempt to revive Pax Americana - its dream of global military dominance - is real. In this lucid, compelling book, a brilliant follow-up to his bestselling "Ignorant Armies", Gwynne Dyer analyzes the history of tensions between the Arab world and the West, and shows how fringe groups of extremists on both sides now feed off each other: terrorism in Western cities provides justification for military reprisals, which in turn strengthen the cause of Islamist fanatics. Dyer argues that unless America honours its commitment to the United Nations, the rule of law and multilateralism, then the drift back into alliances and military confrontations will begin, and the world will edge toward the brink of disaster.