Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Oliver, Robert
Article Excerpt
War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World. By Frank J. Gaffney, et al. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Appendices. Index. Pp. xviii, 301. $29.95 ISBN: 1-59114-301-2
Political advocacy and serious scholarship do not conflict as much as one might think. Some of the most brilliant pieces of insight and subtle explanation come from the pens (or the computers) of men and women with axes to grind and points to flog. One only has to think of Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, or Noam Chomsky. Unfortunately, War Footing does not follow in that eminent tradition.
The book does make a valiant stab at it, however. As the subtitle indicates, Gaffney and friends have assembled ten main points that they feel America must address in order to achieve victory in the current struggle that they name the "War for the Free World" as opposed to the...
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