Up Or Out" Greatly Magnified The Careerist

The Hawk And The Dove Is A Wonderful Idea For A Book, Wonderfully Carried Out. Nicholas Thompson Has Used Illuminating New Material To Present Each Of His Protagonists In A Convincing, Respectful, But Unsparing Way. Even More Valuable, He Has Used The Interactions And Tensions Between Paul Nitze And George Kennan To Bring Much Of American 20th Century Foreign Policy To Life, With Human Richness Ever Present But With The Big Issues Clear In All Their Complexity.

I Don't Think Anybody Who Is Already With Donald Trump Is Going To Be Peeled Off By His Not Knowing About Nato Or Why Japan Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons, Or Things Of That Sort.

There's No Longer Any Surprise In Noting That China Has Grave Environmental Problems.

It Is Not Widely Known That, Ever Since The End Of The Korean War, The United States Has Spent Essentially The Same Amount Of Money On Defense, In Real Terms, Every Single Year.

Our Military Plans Should Be Based On The Assumption Of Unpredictability, Rather Than On Carefully Drawn, Static Models Of The World.