9780307718037-0307718034-Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

ISBN-13: 9780307718037
ISBN-10: 0307718034
Edition: Updated
Author: David E. Sanger
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Crown
Format: Paperback 520 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780307718037
ISBN-10: 0307718034
Edition: Updated
Author: David E. Sanger
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Crown
Format: Paperback 520 pages

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Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (ISBN-13: 9780307718037 and ISBN-10: 0307718034), written by authors David E. Sanger, was published by Crown in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Engineering, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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"This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs
President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power, including our most sophisticated—and still unacknowledged—arsenal of cyberweapons, aimed at Iran's nuclear program.

Washington and the world were rocked by Confront and Conceal, which goes deep into the Situation Room as Obama questions whether this new weapon can slow Iran and avoid a war—or whether it will create blowback, as the Iranians and others retaliate with cyberattacks on the United States. It describes how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan, and how Obama's early idealism about fighting a "war of necessity" in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue, frustration, and now withdrawal. As the world seeks to understand how Obama will cope with nationalistic leaders in Beijing, a North Korea bent on developing a nuclear weapon that can reach American shores, and an Arab world where promising revolutions turned to chaos, Confront and Conceal—with an updated epilogue for this paperback edition—provides an unflinching account of these complex years of presidential struggle, in which America's ability to exert control grows ever more elusive.

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