Review: Non-state Threats and Future Wars
4.0 out of 5 stars Rehash of Old “New” Ideas–Preface is the “Must Read”, August 31, 2003
Review: Weapons of Mass Deception–The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq
5.0 out of 5 stars Book Cover Cartoon Undermines Really Solid Contents August 30, 2003 Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber Do not be deceived by the cover of this book, whose cartoon may suggest that this is light reading or comic level stuff. It is not. This book is a professionally-prepared, well-documented catalog of the …
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Review: The Search for Security–A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Coherent, Holistic, and Above All, Sane, July 4, 2003
Review: Living History
3.0 out of 5 stars Book Achieves Its Low Objectives, July 4, 2003
Review: While America Sleeps–Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
5.0 out of 5 stars Wake Up Call for the Next President–Real World Security, December 6, 2000
2000 Presidential Leadership and National Security Policy Making
Chapter 12, “Presidential Leadership and National Security Policy Making,” pp. 245-282. PDF (38 Pages): Chapter 12 Presidential Leadership Background The Ninth Annual Strategy Conference, held at the U.S. Army War College in 1998, addressed the theme of “Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated?” In the course of that event, a …
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1995 Ivian Smith (US) on US Intelligence Community Deficiencies
Ivian Smith, just prior to going to Little Rock during a Clinton Administration, was the top FBI executive for dealing with CIA on open source intelligence and related matters. His critique of both CIA and FBI is devastating–and this was in 1995, long before the litany of errors that allowed 9-11 to happen came to …
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