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- 9780670019014
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670019011
ISBN-13
9780670019014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63866996
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable : Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Military / Nuclear Warfare, Public Policy / Military Policy, Terrorism
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-043554
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
355.02/170973
Synopsis
A top strategic analyst explains what the Cold War can teach us about the War on Terror September 11 was a product of bad intelligence and wrongheaded expectations about al-Qaedaas motivations, intentions, resourcefulness, and capabilities. But it also sprang from a failure of the kind of predictive strategic thinking that kept the world from becoming atomic rubble in the fifties and sixties. In Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable, strategic analyst Jonathan Stevenson illuminates both the genius of nuclear deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), plus the blind spots that limited the great Cold War civilian strategistsa intellectual fertility and flexibility. Once the Soviet Union collapsed and the existential threat of nuclear holocaust abated, the American strategic communitya from intelligence officers to policymakers to think tanksalost the capacity to forecast and prepare for impending new threats to U.S. and global security. Complementing the cold-eyed revelations of Lawrence Wrightas The Looming Tower and Thomas Ricksas Fiasco, Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable is a probing, urgent exhortation: if we are to extricate America from its current strategic predicament, we must regenerate for a new age the pragmatic creativity that once distinguished its strategic brain trust.
LC Classification Number
UA23.S695 2007
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