Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

I would. Having read "Wired for War" by Peter Singer, I was curious as to how Sanger was viewing President Obama's policies on the use of drones - and other high-tech warfare. POTUS has to be smart enough to understand how 21st century technology is changing what it means to be at war. My first go-round I would say Sanger is as conflicted as I, but some of the reviews I read say Sanger feels Obama has too much power and is using it improperly. Either I missed something or the reviewers are using their own spin.

This was an informative book that takes you behind the scenes of the presidency in its most difficult and sometimes scary role of commander in chief. This peak behind the curtain was incredible and I am greatly appreciative to the author for reporting on the leaders of our country as they took on the momentous events covered in the book.

I felt I got to know the people behind the decisions and the differing views each of these situations involved. For example, the Bin Laden raid could have been a bomb, or could have included Pakistani buy in. Why did we choose a raid that could have ended like Black Hawk Down and to what extent did we feel confident that Bin Laden was even there? These were just a few of the issues discussed and I was absolutely enthralled with the way the story was told.

In this book you get in-depth context and the “why” behind some of the directions we’ve gone and I can’t recommend it more.

This was a very engaging book. I knew many of the broad strokes of topics covered by the books just from following the news, but the in-depth examination of Obama' responses to various events was incredibly interesting. I was struck by 1) how scary many of the questions are that the president has to make essentially unanswerable answers to (what do we do if terrorists actually just got their hands on a nuclear weapon?) and 2) how, after reading this, I had much more respect for the decisions Obama had made.

Probably in the top three books that I've listened to so far.

This book is so packed with revealing insights from so many Washington and military insiders that no one moment can be singled out.

So many different inflections that really give you a sense of the characteristics and intensity of the various contributors to this dialogue.

Surprise. I was surprised at the strength and tenacity of President Obama. Certainly a very shrewd leader and far stronger than the media and the "right" give him credit for.

David Sanger does a fantastic job of fairly and impartially reporting the facts that he gathered for this book (except for his position on the Drone strategy). There are times when you will strongly agree with positions and times when you will get a bit ruffled . . .but that's what happens when both sides are told fairly and accurately. GREAT BOOK!

Yes - entertaining and important.

The account of Iranian operations.

Those about American cyberattacks on Iranian enrichment facilities

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This was my second audio and I was very happy with the purchase. Great insight with fantastic sourcing. I was going to buy the hardcover, and now may need to just to have the sourcing material for academic purposes.

Too much information to digest in one sitting.

I would definitely buy another Sanger and Dean book. The insider national security information was startling.

first Sanger book

good job

Don't know.

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