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Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
Ecco
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0061474622
EAN: 9780061474620
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving
families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw
nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to
prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks, but it has proven
itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority
of our most crucial national security issues, from Iraq to
Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of
our current leadership—it is a systemic problem, the result
of a pattern of incompetence that must be understood,
confronted, and prevented. Clarke's first book, the
number one bestseller Against All Enemies: Inside
America's War on Terror, explained how the United States
had stumbled into a struggle with violent Islamist
extremists. Now, in Your Government Failed You,
Clarke looks at why these unconscionable failures have
continued and how America and the world can succeed against
the terrorists. Yet Clarke also goes far beyond terrorism,
to examine the inexcusable chain of recurring U.S.
government disasters. Despite the lessons of Vietnam, there
is Iraq. A trail of intelligence failures litters the
Washington landscape. From Katrina to color codes and duct
tape, "homeland security" has been an oxymoron. Why does the
superpower continue to bobble national security?
Clarke minces no words in his examination of the breadth and
depth of the mediocrity, entropy, and collapse endemic in
America's national security programs. In order for the
United States to stop its string of strategic mistakes, we
first need to understand why they happen. Drawing on his
thirty years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department,
and intelligence community, Clarke gives us a privileged, if
horrifying, look into the debacle of government policies,
discovering patterns in the failures and offering ways to
stop the cycle once and for all.
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