Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft

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Basic Books, Mar 24, 2009 - Political Science - 336 pages
From a distinguished conservative scholar, a call to reverse a century of wrong-headed foreign policy.
 

Contents

Watch Your Axioms
27
Ideas Have Consequences
45
Medium Not Message
75
Power Makes Money
111
Wars Are for Winning
145
Use Intelligence Not Intelligence
191
Security for Our Side
229
Keep It Simple
263
Notes
281
Index
301
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Angelo M. Codevilla has taught political theory and international relations at Stanford, Princeton, and Georgetown University and is presently a professor of international relations at Boston University. He is the author of nine books, including The Character of Nations, The Arms Control Delusion, and a new translation of Machiavelli’s The Prince. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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