Age of Danger

Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

De: Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker

Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we can do to fix it.

Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues. So what can be done? Enter bestselling author Thom Shanker and defense expert Andrew Hoehn. With decades of national security expertise between them and access to virtually every expert, they look at what’s going wrong in national security and how to make it go right.

Age of Danger looks at the major challenges facing America—from superpowers like Russia and China to emerging threats like pandemics, cybersecurity, climate change, and drones—and reimagines the national security apparatus into something that can truly keep Americans safe. Weaving together expert analysis with exclusive interviews from a new generation of national security leaders, Shanker and Hoehn argue that the United States must create an industrial-grade, life-saving machine out of a system that, for too long, was focused only on deterring adversaries and carrying out global military operations. It is a timely and crucial call to action—a call that if heeded, could save Americans lives, money, and our very future on the global stage.

©2023 Andrew Hoehn & Thom Shanker (P)2023 Hachette Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

“In the years after the 9/11 attacks, terrorism became the zoom-like focus of our government and military. Hoehn and Shanker make a powerful case that our national security leadership requires a more panoramic definition of what is a threat to the United States. Russia and China are back in view but other problems less so. National security has to include food security, climate security, disease security. They clearly define a new outlook, and the new set of institutional tools to manage the Age of Danger in which we find ourselves today.”—Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense, former U.S. Senator, Vietnam veteran

“Age of Danger makes a compelling case that we need to re-architect our national security processes and institutions to deal with the challenges of this new era, from great power competition to climate change and pandemics. Creative and thought-provoking, this book is a must read for students, policy practitioners and concerned citizens alike.”—Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

“Tomorrow’s threats are likely to include Great Power competition, cyber, disease, and climate–and we are far from prepared to meet them. In this timely volume, two leading experts help us think through new approaches to tune up the vast machine of national security to make ourselves more secure. Time is of the essence!”—Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Very Good Read

A book every American should read/listen to understand the challenge we are facing in the 21st century.