Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military by John Arquilla

Midwest Book Review

Worst Enemy offers not just the usual critical insights into what has gone wrong, but offers solutions to remedy problems in American defense policies, and comes from a professor of defense analysis. As such, it's an excellent survey . . .

Book News

[Arquilla] offers an insider's account of the bureaucratic turf wars over military transformation and discusses the challenges in trying to push innovation amongst America's hidebound military.

What People Are Saying

Gary Hart
"As we extricate ourselves from Iraq, the U.S. military, and particularly our ground combat forces, must be restored, and they must be restructured and reformed for the 21st century's new challenges. No better manual exists for how and why this should be done than John Arquilla's well-reasoned, thoughtful, and enlightened analysis. America's leaders, in and out of uniform, must pay heed if our security is to be guaranteed."--(Gary Hart, former U.S. senator and author of Under the Eagle's Wing: A National Security Strategy)

John Robb
"John Arquilla's work is a mind bomb--it explodes the archaic assumptions that continue to hamper the US military's performance in the 21st Century. We either listen to John or pay the price."

Seymour Hersh
"This is a warning, by someone who knows, that we, the people, must find ways to help our military do what it seems incapable of doing--revolutionize its approach to dealing with terrorism and other international threats. But Arquilla, unlike many who seek revolutionary change, makes his case with style and sly wit--often leaving us laughing through our tears."

Bevin Alexander
"John Arquilla's book is magnificent. It presents the clearest, most coherent and most convincing argument for radical change in our military that I have ever seen. He shows that a reconstituted U.S. military, networked together and moving at light speed, can work far more effectively with less than a quarter of its present strength, and can dispense entirely with that 'emblem of hierarchy,' the Pentagon."--(Bevin Alexander, author of How Wars Are Won and How Hitler Could Have Won World War II)

Product Details

• ISBN: 1566637503
  
• ISBN-13: 9781566637503
• Format: Hardcover, 288pp
• Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
• Pub. Date: May 2008
• Sales Rank: 70,494

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