Michael Tanji of Haft of the Spear has edited a terrific volume on THREATS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA, coming Jan. 20 from Nimble Books. This paragraph got me excited:
No author here has been a cabinet officer and none is likely to be one, which gives us a considerable amount of freedom. No one here has to face scrutiny on Capitol Hill, which makes our jobs much easier; but by the same token none of us are beholden to parties or institutions with ulterior motives, nor are we playing our cards in a fashion designed to net us comfortable situations. If you are on a mission to change the way government works, particularly in the national security arena, this is one of the few places where some independent thinking is to be found. It is with that in mind that we offer our view of some of the more pressing threats the Obama administration will have to deal with in these early days of the 21st century.
What we’re doing, in other words, is disintermediating the national security analytic apparatus.
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This is an interesting read. I think Obama will change some stuff, but many things will stay the same.
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