DR Book Club: Daydream Believers


	DR Book Club: Daydream Believers

rmowery

3-22-2008 12:29 AM

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daydream believers, bush, warfare, network war, drones, robots

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 Plenty of books have beaten up on the Bush administration's military and diplomatic strategies.  But Fred Kaplan's</EM> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Daydream-Believers-Grand-Wrecked-American/dp/0470121181">Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power</A><EM> may be the most broad-based assault yet.  In it, Kaplan hammers on everything from the White House's faith in military technological superiority to its holier</EM><EM>-than-thou approach to negotiating (or not).  </EM><EM>Kaplan, who writes </EM>Slate's<EM> "<A href="http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=26450">War Stories</A>" column, also explores the roots of many of these beliefs.  And that's where we start this Q&A -- this first of many, I hope, with leading authors on national security. </EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/danger-room-sma.html"><P><STRONG>Danger Room: </STRONG>To outsiders, the idea of of a <A href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-12/ff_futurewar">lighter, quicker, better-networked military</A>
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