In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original Star Wars proposals, were spectacular failures and call into question the whole program's rationale. Neither the land-based system proposed by the Clinton administration, nor the alternatives proposed by earlier administrations, would ever work--regardless of how much R&D money is channeled into the project. Rather than enhancing national...
In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation ...
Four members of the State Department team play a war game on the fringes of the Vietnam conflict--and find the rules between games and reality blurring into deadly territory.
Four members of the State Department team play a war game on the fringes of the Vietnam conflict--and find the rules between games and reality blurrin...
A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In "National Insecurity" ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research, and the foreign service, they propose a radical rethinking of the United States' intelligence needs in the post-Cold War world. In addition,...
A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Y...
The Cold War has been over for ten years and no country threatens this nation's existence, yet, we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In this book, ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with US intelligence and what needs to be done to fix it.
The Cold War has been over for ten years and no country threatens this nation's existence, yet, we still spend billions of dollars on covert action an...
Argues how the Bush administration has destroyed years of foreign policy accomplishments, and discusses how the United States needs to improve its reputation in the global community.
Argues how the Bush administration has destroyed years of foreign policy accomplishments, and discusses how the United States needs to improve its rep...
