Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe by Harman, Jane
Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe by Harman, Jane

Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe

An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in...
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Author: Jane Harman
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Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe by Harman, Jane

Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe

$399.89
Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe by Harman, Jane

Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe

$399.89
Author: Jane Harman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended.

Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future.

The reasons for these inadequacies are varied and complex, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn't realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable, at times arrogant, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions, which had stayed resilient, however imperfectly, through multiple crises, began their own unraveling.

Congresswoman Harman was there--as witness, legislator, exhorter, enabler, dissident and, eventually, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider's account of decades of American national security--of its failures and omissions--and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues.

Author: Jane Harman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250758774


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/01/2021

About the Author
During her long public career, JANE HARMAN served nine terms in Congress, including four years after 9/11 as ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, and recently completed a decade at the nonpartisan Wilson Center as its first female president and CEO. Harman is recognized as a national expert at the nexus of security and public policy issues, and has received numerous awards for distinguished service. She has served on advisory boards for the CIA, Director of National Intelligence, and the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and State. Harman is currently a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the advisory board of the Munich Security Conference and co-chairs the Homeland Security Experts Group with former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.
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