Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters by Richard A Clarke and Richard A. Clarke (2008, Hardcover)

Synopsis
Intelligence expert Richard Clarke provides a sobering assessment of the current state of national security--and gives a failing grade. The main point of Clarke's analysis is that, while blame for many post-9/11 security problems can be rightfully placed squarely at the Bush administration's doorstep, those problems will not disappear with a change in administrations. The real problem, he says, is systemic. Clarke proposes a major overhaul of a system he says is deeply flawed--as he discusses issues such as energy, homeland security, the military, intelligence, terrorism, and others. Clarke, who was coordinator of national security and anti-terrorism in the Clinton administration, testified before the 9/11 Commission and wrote the bestselling AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: INSIDE AMERICA'S WAR ON TERROR.

Key Details
Author:	Richard A Clarke
Language:	English
Publisher:	Ecco Pr
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0061474622
ISBN-13:	9780061474620

Additional Details
Edition Number:	1

Size
Length:	408 pages
Height:	9.5 in
Width:	6.5 in
Thickness:	1.5 in
Weight:	24.8 oz

Publisher's Note

Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks, but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of our current leadership—it is a systemic problem, the result of a pattern of incompetence that must be understood, confronted, and prevented.

Clarke's first book, the number one bestseller Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, explained how the United States had stumbled into a struggle with violent Islamist extremists. Now, in Your Government Failed You, Clarke looks at why these unconscionable failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed against the terrorists. Yet Clarke also goes far beyond terrorism, to examine the inexcusable chain of recurring U.S. government disasters. Despite the lessons of Vietnam, there is Iraq. A trail of intelligence failures litters the Washington landscape. From Katrina to color codes and duct tape, "homeland security" has been an oxymoron. Why does the superpower continue to bobble national security?

Clarke minces no words in his examination of the breadth and depth of the mediocrity, entropy, and collapse endemic in America's national security programs. In order for the United States to stop its string of strategic mistakes, we first need to understand why they happen. Drawing on his thirty years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community, Clarke gives us a privileged, if horrifying, look into the debacle of government policies, discovering patterns in the failures and offering ways to stop the cycle once and for all.

An analysis of America's national security policies by a White House-appointed national coordinator for security and counter-terrorism evaluates the U.S. government's mistakes and why they have occurred, in a report that poses alternative solutions. By the author of Against All Enemies. 250,000 first printing.

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