Within defense circles Andrew Marshall, famously aloof and
spotlight-shunning, is a legend. He has served in the Pentagon for
nearly forty years, appointed and reappointed by eight U.S.
presidents, and is the director of the Office of Net
Assessment--the Pentagon's internal think-tank. From this post,
Marshall has led and continues to lead cutting edge thinking on the
global military balance of power and how the United States must
position itself to stay ahead of the curve. From his days working
with the legendary Enrico Fermi on the cyclotron at the University
of Chicago, to his path-breaking work at the RAND Corporation
during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall
emerged as one of America's leading strategists during a long,
bitter and dangerous stand-off with the Soviet Union. Following the
Cold War, Marshall has remained a central force in the U.S. defense
establishment's efforts to tackle the new threats to the nation's
security, to include the rise of militant Islamism, the
proliferation of nuclear weapons to countries in the developing
world, and the rapid rise of China and its equally imposing
military buildup. In following the course of Marshall's
professional life, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts--two former
members of his staff--explore the dawn of the Cold War in the 1940s
and 1950s, recount the creation of the influential and secretive
RAND Corporation, detail the ascent of the Soviet Union as a
nuclear power, and introduce the brilliant minds--from the worlds
of statistics, economics, physics, sociology, and more--who
designed the United States' Cold War strategy. They plunge the
reader into the world of U.S. defense and intelligence in the 1960s
and 1970s, go inside war-gaming and scenario planning in the
Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and vividly depict the
unraveling of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism in the
1980s. They delve into the revolution in military affairs spawned
by precision munitions and cyber warfare in the 1990s and 2000s,
and finally, wrestle with the challenges to American national
security that confront us today and loom on the horizon--threats
from decentralized networks of combatants like Al Qaeda and from
rising powers like China. The Last Warrior will, for the first
time, tell Marshall's story, and in doing so provide an inside
account and history of the last sixty years of the American defense
establishment, spanning the entirety of the Cold War, America's
unipolar movement, and the new period of destabilized competition
between the United States, rising powers, and non-state actors. It
is told through one man's life and remarkable career, but The Last
Warrior is a much grander story that involves some of the most
pivotal America figures of the last half century.
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