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The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe Hardcover – September 3, 2019

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“A must read for anyone who cares about our nation's security in these cyber-serious, hair-trigger times.” – Susan Eisenhower

Every American president since the end of the Cold War has called for better relations with Russia. But each has seen relations get worse by the time he left office. Now the two countries are facing off in a virtual war being fought without clear goals or boundaries.

Why? Many say it is because Washington has been slow to wake up to Russian efforts to destroy democracy in America and the world.

But a former head of Russia analysis at the CIA says that this misunderstands the problem. George Beebe argues that new game-changing technologies, disappearing rules of the game, and distorted perceptions on both sides are combining to lock Washington and Moscow into an escalatory spiral that they do not recognize. All the pieces are in place for a World War I-type tragedy that could be triggered by a small, unpredictable event. The Russia Trap shows that anticipating this danger is the most important step in preventing it.

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240 pages
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English
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Thomas Dunne Books
Publication date

September 3, 2019
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5.16 x 0.89 x 10.45 inches
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1250316626
ISBN-13

978-1250316622
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GEORGE S. BEEBE is the Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest, a non-partisan thinktank in Washington, D.C. He served in the US government for nearly twenty-five years, including as director of Russia analysis at CIA and as a White House adviser on Russia matters for Vice President Dick Cheney. He lives in northern Virginia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Dunne Books (September 3, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250316626
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250316622
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 0.89 x 10.45 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #799,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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George S. Beebe is the Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest, a non-partisan thinktank in Washington, D.C. He served in government for nearly twenty-five years, including as director of Russia analysis at CIA and as a White House adviser on Russia matters for Vice President Dick Cheney. He is married to Sarah Miller Beebe, author of Cases in Intelligence Analysis. They live in northern Virginia with their four children and two dogs.

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Michael E. Murray MD

Increasing Danger of War Due To Misconception

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019

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The first two chapters alone are the most important pieces I have read in the past decade. The author describes how the combination of cyber with nuclear and other weapons systems can render them unreliable. This creates a far more dangerous and uncertain world than the nuclear standoff during the old War.
Next he describes the recent growth of hostility between the United States and Russia which is based upon false perceptions of each other, a situation that has created a far greater likelihood of war.

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Guenter Langer

Peace with Russia is possible

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2019

The Author sees the conflict between Russia and the US as becoming more and more dangerous. He describes in particular the cyber war as a very new factor. His approach is to make leaders understand that both sides of a conflict have to be acknowledged.

In his effort to follow his own recipe he describes viewpoints on both sides of the conflict but falls short in analyzing the real factors of aggressive foreign policies, at least on the side of the US. For him it seems to be natural for the US to have several hundred military basis around the world. He neither questions the post-WW2 world order of containment versus the alleged aggressive Soviet Union nor the extension of this type of behavior in the world after the demise of the Soviet Union. However, he tries to explain the Russian viewpoint and thinks the West should take that into consideration.

In details he omitted some unpleasant facts. When he writes about the Helsinki Accord of 1975 that determines that changes of borders only are legitimate by peaceful means he should have pointed out that the first breach of this Accord was the war against Serbia in order to break Kosovo out of that country.

The Charter of Paris of 1990 ended the Cold War and established the reason for ending military alliances in Europe. Of course, the Warsaw Pact was dissolved but not NATO. Beebe does not provide a good reason for this difference.

Minutia:
The secret channel between the CIA and the KGB was called Gavrilov after a Russian 19th century poet.
Litvinenko was a MI6/Chechen militant who got killed in London.

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J. Spehar

The shadow govt is playing a dangerous game

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2022

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Very sobering overview of the dangers of poking the bear.

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Pierre M.

Bien argumenté, agréable à lire

Reviewed in France on October 21, 2019

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Ce livre fournit une argumentation structurée et richement illustrée par des exemples pertinents, qui nous fait aller dans le sens de l'auteur. Les nombreuses références plairont à ceux déçus par la brièveté de l'ouvrage.

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