From Containment to Global Leadership?: America and the World After the Cold War [Paperback]

Z. Khalilzad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0833016202 | ISBN-13: 978-0833016201 | Edition: 1

With its victory in the Cold War, the United States is now the world's preeminent military and political power. Three years after the end of the Cold War, however, no new grand design has yet jelled, and this failure carries large opportunity costs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 45 pages
• Publisher: Rand Publishing; 1 edition (February 22, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833016202
• ISBN-13: 978-0833016201
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,859,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue Print for World Tyranny!, February 3, 2003

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RONALD F AVERY (Seguin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Containment to Global Leadership?: America and the World After the Cold War (Paperback)

Where is the review I wrote and submitted for this book more than 2 weeks ago?
I'm not writing any more reviews if you arn't going to print them. I will also make it known that you won't print them.
Sincerely,
Ron Avery

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Steps to US Global Tyranny, April 14, 2003

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RONALD F AVERY (Seguin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Containment to Global Leadership?: America and the World After the Cold War (Paperback)

This book documents the most barbaric global plan of the United States to prevent any other nation from reaching competitive status even if it means the use of force. It outlines the manner in which we are to lead the world by our intervention into the affairs of every nation to protect whatever our "leaders" deem to be our national interest. There are at least four unavoidable, observations to any reader of Khalilzad's book that raise suspicion and point to motive, or at least the answer to prayer by the Bush regime:
1. Everything being implemented as a result of 9/11 "terror" was called for in 1995 by Khalilzad.
2. Khalilzad's hard, cold and brutal perception of the forces that drive other nations to seize opportunity and threaten the U.S. supremacy suddenly goes naive and silly with regard for how the Bush regime should install his new Post Cold War "Grand Strategy."
3. The obvious panic and insistence upon the notion that the U.S. must institute this new "Grand Strategy" or it will be lost forever and we will be doomed to losing superiority and leadership of the world.
4. It is obvious that Bush will use the military without constitutional authority to attack nations that have a defense system and wealth as if nations had no rights to such things.
5. One is lead to the obvious conclusion that Osama bin Laden had a keen ability to mesh with the plans of the Bush regime or he was at least an answer to prayer to implement an otherwise hard sell to the American people.
"A Global rival could emerge if a hostile power or coalition gained hegemony over a critical region. Therefore, it is a vital U.S. interest to preclude such a development--i.e., to be willing to use force if necessary for the purpose. A region can be defined as critical if it contains sufficient economic, technical, and human resources so that a hostile power that gained control over it could pose a global challenge. Two regions now meet this criterion: East Asia and Europe. The Persian Gulf is very important for a different reason--its oil resources are vital for the world economy."(25)
And:
"Military strength should be measured not just in terms of the strength of other countries, but in terms of the U.S. ability to carry out the strategy outlined here. The danger that military capability could be cut to below this level is real: historically, the United States has made this error on several occasions by excessive downsizing. It faces the same danger again for the longer term. Already there is a serious question as to whether the United States will indeed have the necessary force structure to fight and win two major regional wars (Korea and the Persian Gulf) nearly simultaneously - the core requirement of current military strategy." (31)
It is most obvious that these global designs of world domination and intervention could not be implemented upon the floor of the U.S. Congress without an "architectural framework" like the WTC. The only thing that could install these plans, now underway, is through an act similar or identical to those we suffered on September 11, 2001. Thanks again must go to Osama bin Laden for his brilliant timing and coordination with the "BUSH GRAND STRATEGY."

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