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"Bob Moriarty's The Art of Peace is on one level an artfully composed autobiography recounting the coming of age of a young man who was to become the youngest Naval Aviator and Marine pilot in the Vietnam era. But it also accomplishes what perhaps no other book on the topic even considers - tackling how to avoid the same mistakes in the future. How can we look at things from a different perspective in order to sidestep most armed conflicts in the first place? He writes about Vietnam, ""We had no strategy other than just to fight the war. Our enemies, however, knew exactly what victory meant to them. They wanted to control their own destiny. They wanted to run their own country and had been fighting for independence since 1930..."" Sounds like something that happened in America a long time ago. A lot of writers would take half a book to say what Moriarty converys in the last dozen pages of his book. He suggests, ""Between the chaos in the Middle East and the slow motion train wreck of the world's financial system, our world is undergoing the greatest change since the Peace of Westphalia signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War...(which) essentially created the concept of a 'nation state' with sovereignty over its own territory and affairs."" And set into motion the idea that you don't attack another state unless they attack you first."

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This is a very good book with an important message by one who is well qualified to make the judgements which he does. A much decorated airman with an impeccable record of combat and many missions over Vietnam, much training in many fields, and information to back up his claims, says we can no longer afford war. Just economically, it causes America to bankrupt itself, enrich the military industrial complex, and bring preventable sorrow and heartbreak all aroun the globe. I would give it a 5 for its message, but I reserve my 5's for those with both an important message, fine artistic writing, and an ability of the author to draw the reader in emotionally. This book is well written, but not the highest quality which makes one marvel at the phrasing, description, or emotional impact. Moriarty certainly tells of his own background, and why he was drawn into the patriotic fervor, and why he now is soured and cynical about war. He spends much time describing his own path, and various trainings, to the extent that only another military person, or one enthralled by the military, is really able to understand all the designations and lingo. I would call this more of a memoir. Neverless, for the total impact of his message and his argument against war, I would highly recommend this to the thinking reader. Jeannie L. Stuckey

This is a very good book with an important message by one who is well qualified to make the judgements which he does. A much decorated airman with an impeccable record of combat and many missions over Vietnam, much training in many fields, and information to back up his claims, says we can no longer afford war. Just economically, it causes America to bankrupt itself, enrich the military industrial complex, and bring preventable sorrow and heartbreak all aroun the globe.</p> I would give it a 5 for its message, but I reserve my 5's for those with both an important message, fine artistic writing, and an ability of the author to draw the reader in emotionally. This book is well written, but not the highest quality which makes one marvel at the phrasing, description, or emotional impact.</p> Moriarty certainly tells of his own background, and why he was drawn into the patriotic fervor, and why he now is soured and cynical about war. He spends much time describing his own path, and various trainings, to the extent that only another military person, or one enthralled by the military, is really able to understand all the designations and lingo. I would call this more of a memoir. Neverless, for the total impact of his message and his argument against war, I would highly recommend this to the thinking reader.</p> </p> Jeannie L. Stuckey</p>

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Robert Moriarty was born in New York state in 1946. He began training as a military pilot in 1965 and became the youngest Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War in 1966. With two years in Vietnam and some 832 missions in combat, he left the Marine Corps in 1970. He worked in computers for a few years before beginning a 2nd career as a ferry pilot delivering small airplanes all over the world. He made over 240 ocean crossings mostly in single engine airplanes. He and his wife of 25 years were computer consultants and began one of the earliest online computer retail outlets in 1995 before retiring in 2000. He began another career running a financial website in 2001 specializing in resource companies. He continues to travel the world looking for the next great mineral discovery and writes in his spare time.

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