Present Dangers

With each passing day the world seems to become a more perilous place. Russia implodes and China expands; North Korea develops missiles capable of striking Hawaii and Alaska; and Iraq perfects weapons of mass destruction that could be smuggled into New York in a suitcase. Yet America, the most powerful country in the world, also at times seems the most uncertain when it comes to protecting itself from these threats. In this book, Robert Kagan and William Kristol have compiled twelve provocative and sobering essays, all original for this volume, from intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Kagan and William Bennett that challenge America to take a hard look at the coming crises in our foreign policy. This book makes the case for repairing our depleted military, for a crash program of missile defence to shield us from random attack, and for a complete rethinking of whom our possible adversaries and real strategic partners are. This book makes sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000.