Treasury's War

The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare

By: Juan Zarate

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world. In this gripping story, he explains in unprecedented detail how a small, dedicated group of officials redefined the Treasury's role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply financial pressure against America's enemies.

This group unleashed a new brand of financial power - one that leveraged the private sector and banks directly to isolate rogues from the international financial system. By harnessing the forces of globalization and the centrality of the American market and dollar, the Treasury developed a new way of undermining America's foes. The Treasury and its tools soon became, and remain, critical in the most vital geopolitical challenges facing the United States, including terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and the regimes in Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

This is the unique story of the United States' financial war campaigns and the contours and uses of financial power, and of the warfare to come.

©2013 Juan C. Zarate (P)2020 Tantor

Finance as an instrument of national power

Juan Zarate does and excellent job with this book. It is a must read for those in the National Security field, especially if them want to have a solid background on how and why the United States wages financial warfare. Bravo.

Educational

there's a saying, if you want to know the real story always follow the money. A good listen if you're interested in geopolitics.

Good story, yet outdated info.

this book was published in 2020, yet most of the information presented rarely goes beyond the early 2010s. A lot has changed since then. America's energy indepence that has stemmed from the shale revolution has changed everything, and rather than mention this, the book makes reference to America's 1-billion-a-day oil dependency, which was true 10 years ago, but not today. I enjoyed this book in a financial history context, but I expected a more accurate and updated account of current events.

Very useful book for understanding financial power

Very useful book for understanding financial power, covers the history well while explaining in terms readily understandable. the author puts in his opinion and stories are told from his perspective, but a critical reader will be able to differentiate.