‘Great Nightfall’ Provides Extraordinary Overview Of Military Challenges Facing America

PA Pundits International

By Thomas Spoehr ~

Americans who want to better understand the complex threats the United States faces might assume that they need to read at least several books to get the full picture.

Indeed, the landscape is complicated. The range of threats today includes cyber, space, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence-guided weapons, and robots; not to mention the more traditional areas of sea, air, and land conflict.

In his new book “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War,” Ambassador J. William Middendorf synthesizes the most important issues facing America’s military. Pictured: A U.S. carrier strike group transit in formation in the Bay of Bengal. (Photo: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images)

Fortunately, a noted national security leader has done the hard work of synthesizing the most important knowledge about America’s military challenges into a single trenchant volume.

Ambassador J. William Middendorf, former secretary of the Navy and a…

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