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Notes
Introduction
1Alan R. Millet and Williamson Murray, Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007); Eugenia C. Kiesling, Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of the Military Planning (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996); Robert A. Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2014).
2Trudy Rubin, Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004).
3On the Iron Curtain, see Phil McKenna, “Life in the Death Zone,” Nova, PBS, February 18, 2015, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/european-green-belt/; John Pike, “2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment,” Global security.org, January 13, 2012, https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/2acr.htm.
4For more on the Battle of 73 Easting, see H. R. McMaster, “Eagle Troop at the Battle of 73 Easting,” The Strategy Bridge, February 26, 2016, https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2016/2/26/eagle-troop-at-the-battle-of-73-easting.
5Hans Morgenthau and Ethel Person, “The Roots of Narcissism,” Partisan Review 45, no. 3 (Summer 1978): 337–47, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, http://archives.bu.edu/.
6Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 2006).
7Statement of Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, On U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Globalization, May 15, 2008, U.S. Senate: Committee on Foreign Relations, March 15, 2008, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HaassTestimony080515p.pdf.
8Frederick W. Kagan, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (New York: Encounter Books, 2007); Herbert R. McMaster, “Crack in the Foundation Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War,” July 2003, https://doi.org/10.21236/ada416172.
9Linda D. Kozaryn, “U.S. Aircrew Detained in China Heads Home,” U.S. Department of Defense, April 12, 2001, https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44964.
10Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (New York: Vintage Books, 2007).
11On this point, see David Kilcullen, The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020); Douglas Jehl, “C.I.A. Nominee Wary of Budget Cuts,” New York Times, Feb. 3, 1993.
12David Kilcullen, The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
13The White House, “A National Security Strategy for a Global Age,” December 2000, https://history.defense.gov/Historical-Sources/National-Security-Strategy/.
14Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, “How Much Did the September 11 Terrorist Attack Cost America?,” Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, http://www.iags.org/costof911.html.
15The bailout was part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
16“Obama on Afghan War Drawdown: ‘The Tide of War Is Receding,’” PBS NewsHour, PBS, June 23, 2011, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-on-afghan-troop-drawdown-the-tide-of-war-is-receding#transcript.
17Oba
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19Nadia Schadlow, “Competitive Engagement: Upgrading America’s Influence,” Orbis, September 13, 2013, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438713000446.
20Niall Ferguson, Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist (New York: Penguin Press, 2015).
21Sun Tzu and Thomas F. Cleary, The Art of War (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2005).
22Winston S. Churchill, “Painting as a Pastime,” in Amid These Storms (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932).
Chapter 1: Fear, Honor, and Ambition: Mr. Putin’s Campaign to Kill the West’s Cow
1On Russia’s alleged interference, see “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections,” Intelligence Community Assessment, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 6, 2017, https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf; Becky Branford, “Information Warfare: Is Russia Really Interfering in European States?” BBC, March 31, 2017, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39401637.
2Sarah Marsh, “US joins UK in blaming Russia for NotPetya cyber-attack,” The Guardian, February 15, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/15/uk-blames-russia-notpetya-cyber-attack-ukraine.
3Andy Greenberg, “The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History,” Wired, December 7, 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/.
4Andrew Kramer, “Russian General Pitches ‘Information’ Operations as a Form of War,” New York Times, March 2, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/europe/russia-hybrid-war-gerasimov.html.
5“Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis on U.S. Strike in Syria,” Department of Defense, April 6, 2017, https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/1144598/statement-from-pentagon-spokesman-capt-jeff-davis-on-us-strike-in-syria/.
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