2 06 2012
America's Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies
Title: America’s Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies
Author: George Friedman
ISBN: 0385512457
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures:
REVIEW
The fundamental premise of George Friedman’s recent insightful book America’s Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies is that the events of 9/11, the Afghanistan war and the Iraq War, are all inter-related and form a coherent pattern. Furthermore, the principal actors such as Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and others are quite aware of what they are doing and are not, as the media would want us sometimes to believe, irrational human beings. We may not agree with their repugnant behavior at times, however, this does not translate into their being stupid, dumb or fools.
Friedman is the founder of a global intelligence company, Stratfor that has provided considerable analytical consultations to Fortune 500 companies, as well as the US Government. He is in the business of analyzing information that his staff and contacts have gathered pertaining to strategic intelligence on global business, economic security and geopolitical affairs.
As mentioned on its website, Stratfor delivers actionable intelligence rather than reactive information prevalent in much of the media today.
It is with this in mind, that Friedman approaches his subject matter in order to provide a synthesis and make sense of what we have experienced these past few years and what lies ahead.
From the very onset of the book, the author hammers home the point that we are engaged in a Global War, although it may not look like any of the previous wars.
As the author quotes the renowned theorist of war, Karl von Clausewitz
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