A nation must think before it acts.
This volume— the culmination of four years of work and three conferences conducted by FPRI’s Defense Task Force— contains essays by the most respected strategic thinkers in the United States, including Donald Kagan, John Hillen, Eliot Cohen, Williamsom Murray, Don Snider, Sam Sarkesian, Keith Payne, Andrew Bacevich, Henry Sokolski, Winn Schwartau, Richard H. Harknett, Andrew P.N. Erdmann, and the late Harry G. Summers, Jr. It is edited by John Lehman and Harvey Sicherman.