Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 288
Trim: 5¼ x 8¼
978-1-56663-726-8 • Paperback • March 2007 • $16.95 • (£12.95)
John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. A Ph.D. graduate of Stanford and a former policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, he has also written From Troy to Entebbe, In Athena's Camp, and Networks and Netwars. He lives in Monterey.
Arquilla's provocative and counter-intuitive depiction of Ronald Reagan...contributes significantly to revisionist interpretations of the Great Communicator's presidency.
— Melvin Small, Wayne State University; author of Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds
A fresh analysis of Ronald Reagan's strategic approach to foreign policy...very readable.
— Edwin Meese III, U.S. Attorney General (1985-1988)
A practical book...with a surprising end-of-the-book bonus—a set of footnotes that delight and inform.
— Seymour M. Hersh; The New Yorker
A balanced analysis—neither an attack, nor an apology.
— Forbes
The greatest strength of Arquilla's book is that he moves beyond the Cold War.... Recommended.
— CHOICE
Fascinating book.
— Stephen Knott; Claremont Review of Books
Arquilla makes a persuasive argument.
— Russell Baker; The New York Review Of Books
This is a good read for all hands.
— Proceedings
Lucid in style and challenging in content, this work should engender debate about Reagan's legacy and American Foreign Policy.
— Stephen K. Shaw; Library Journal
Demonstrates an almost inexhaustible knowledge of U.S. foreign policy from the Reagan presidency onwards...a clear-eyed and objective narrative.
— Federal Lawyer
His innovations in foreign policy must still be confronted