{"product_id":"insanity-defense-why-our-failure-to-confront-hard-national-security-problems-makes-us-less-safe","title":"Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe","description":"An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended.\n\nInsanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future.\n\nThe reasons for these inadequacies are varied and complex, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn’t realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable, at times arrogant, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions, which had stayed resilient, however imperfectly, through multiple crises, began their own unraveling.\n\nCongresswoman Harman was there―as witness, legislator, exhorter, enabler, dissident and, eventually, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider’s account of decades of American national security―of its failures and omissions―and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250758777\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1250758777.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Harman, Jane\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43739234992189,"sku":"BVV.1250758777.G","price":8.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/insanity-defense-why-our-failure-to-confront-hard-national-security-problems-makes-us-less-safe","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}