Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror

A top strategic analyst explains how Cold War tactics can help today's strategists with the War on Terror, in a report that explains why the author believes the September 11 attacks were not foreseen. 25,000 first printing.

Jonathan Stevenson is a professor of strategic studies at the Naval War College. He spent most of the 1990s in sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Ireland, and his previous books include “We Wrecked the Place”: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles and Losing Mogadishu. He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, as well as in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.