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Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable : Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror by Jonathan Stevenson (2008, Hardcover)
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Explore the complexities of military and nuclear warfare, public policy, and terrorism with Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror by Jonathan Stevenson. This nonfiction novel provides a comprehensive analysis of the most pressing security issues of our time. With a focus on practical solutions, this hardcover book offers valuable insights into the challenges facing our nation's military and political leaders. Published by Penguin Publishing Group in 2008, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in history, political science, and national security.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670019011
ISBN-139780670019014
eBay Product ID (ePID)63866996
Product Key Features
Book TitleThinking Beyond the Unthinkable : Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicMilitary / Nuclear Warfare, Public Policy / Military Policy, Terrorism
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorJonathan Stevenson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-043554
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal355.02/170973
SynopsisA 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 NumberUA23.S695 2007
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