6 Nightmares
Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them
-
- USD 9.99
-
- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
Part important warning, part riveting memoir, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake paints six terrifying scenarios that threaten our country's safety and shows how the government is prepared to face them - and how it is not. Though we live in a time of peace, serious threats to our national security lie just beyond the horizon.
In Six Nightmares, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake examines six major threats to America's safety that could arise from global terrorism, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other serious risks. Weaving in firsth and views of key recent decisions, he shows how these threats could become real, how the government is prepared to face them and the alarming ways in which it is not.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Our military and diplomatic strategy has not kept pace with our hardware," warns former Clinton national security adviser Lake in a book that is part memoir, part cautionary tale about the dangers the U.S. faces in the 21st century. Lake attributes our government's current lack of preparedness for possible military crises to the country's false sense of security based on its present economic strength and unprecedented wealth. In response, Lake offers a clarion call for international involvement and global cooperation. He convincingly outlines six possible disaster scenarios--including a poison gas attack and a cyber-terrorist threat--and what America might do to prevent them. In between, he offers refreshing insight into the American national security network and the personalities who make the tough decisions. Lake also retraces, somewhat defensively, the foreign policy challenges--Ireland, Bosnia, Somalia--that the Clinton administration faced in its first term. Lake's answers to the problems of the "New World Order"--more money for the military, increased global cooperation with nations that share U.S. goals, use of the West's information superiority for military purposes, among them--are unlikely to calm anxious readers. But he has provided, in a surprisingly readable form, a Western expert's analysis of the global dangers that lie ahead.
