[PDF file]: […] is not very hopeful. Which brings us to Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism, by far the best of the three books under review. Boot is a security specialist, the author of a number of books on insurgency and counter-insurgency, most recently a study of Edward Lansdale (The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and […]
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[PDF file]: […] missing and he begins with this: ‘Larry Hancock brings formal training in history and cultural anthropology to his research and writing on Cold War history and national security subjects. Following service in the U.S. Air Force, his career in computer/ communications and technology marketing allowed him to become a consultant on strategic analysis and […]
[PDF file]: […] economic modernization, environmental improvement and the elimination of unemployment and poverty.14 Rewriting economic theory The agenda first glimpsed in 1929 grew to embrace the expansion of social security, provision of free universal medical care (while working at the Treasury in World War Two, Keynes backed Sir William Beveridge’s proposals for the establishment of ‘cradle […]
[PDF file]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]
[PDF file]: […] By its very nature this creates some serious problems. The best example of this an account of Derek Harvey, director for the Middle East on the National Security Council staff, and the way he pushed for the administration to recognise the Iranian threat. Woodward sings the man’s praises. Harvey is a ‘driven legend’ who […]
[PDF file]: […] that on 24 June 2016 he was the speaker ‘at the annual meeting of Le Cercle’ which he goes on to describe as ‘a long-standing, slightly crazy security conference which I have been going to for years’. (p. 44) He tells the meeting (none of the other attendees are named) how difficult and politically […]
[PDF file]: […] and came to the conclusion that the resulting corruption was what ‘was driving people to violent revolt in Afghanistan’. Eventually she went to work for the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) where she was one of a number of people arguing that corruption was fuelling the insurgency and that combating it was a […]
