“Masterful, insightful, and highly instructive.... This book offers a new U.S. administration a tour-de-force examination of the grim realities facing America today, which must measure its aims and corresponding means with finer precision and a greater deal of caution in the coming decade. Without peer among strategic historians, Dr. Gray’s prodigious scholarship and wit is quite evident, down to the last footnote. National Security Dilemmas is enthusiastically recommended for immediate study by all serious students of strategy and any candidate for policy positions in the Obama administration.”—Frank Hoffman, senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
“Dr. Gray’s work has long been foundational to sound strategic thinking. There are simply no important strategic issues that he has not rigorously addressed. This volume brings together some of his most compelling studies."—Antulio Echevarria II, U.S. Army War College
“A work of breathtaking scope that grounds the key security issues of our day in the persisting nature of war and strategy. It will challenge both scholars and practitioners of security, but they will be better for the effort.”—Steven Metz, author of Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy
“Colin Gray is the greatest strategic analyst and writer of our time. He again leads us without sentiment to consider emerging security challenges rigorously in the light of logic, past experience, and contemporary evidence. The result here is a masterpiece.”—Keith B. Payne, president, National Institute for Public Policy, and head, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University
“A dazzling work that cements Colin Gray’s reputation as the most consistently brilliant strategic thinker in the English-speaking world. Once again, he points out the dangers of embracing national security ‘fads,’ reminding us that there are no panaceas that will ensure future American security. For those who have the wisdom to listen to him, Professor Gray once again provides unique insights into the complex phenomenon of war and the development of strategy and operational doctrine for a dangerous and uncertain world.”—Mackubin Thomas Owens, professor, Naval War College, and editor of Orbis
