Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror

by Jonathan Stevenson

Book Overview

A top strategic analyst explains what the Cold War can teach us about the War on Terror September 11 was a product of bad intelligence and wrongheaded expectations about al-Qaedaas motivations, intentions, resourcefulness, and capabilities. But it also sprang from a failure of the kind of predictive strategic thinking that kept the world from becoming atomic rubble in the fifties and sixties. In Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable, strategic analyst Jonathan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670019011
• ISBN13: 9780670019014
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher