Al Asah Al Ghaliza | Eliot Cohen

A wonderful book, extremely important in its content and timing, and based on a great deal of logic and rationality, it delves into the last fifteen years of the war, deals with contemporary challenges and builds a very coherent case for the question of American leadership of the world - despite leadership that has been exercised with a measure of wisdom and in a manner characterized by durability and stability.

The general frameworks and guidelines that Cohen proposes for the use of this force are valuable frameworks that are especially important in light of America's readiness to transition to a new administration."

Retired General David Petraeus Commander of the Forces American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, later director of the CIA, and now head of the KKR Global Institute

“At a time of mounting challenges to peace and global order, Professor Cohen paints for us a clear and balanced vision of the critical role that American military power and American leadership must play to secure our world, an indispensable reading at a time when the administration is preparing new to take over the reins of power in the country. - Michael Chertoff, Former US Secretary of Homeland Security

"Any commentator on grand strategy can be a certain degree of intelligence and knowledge, but Eliot Cohen is also brave and wise, brave in his fearless approach to the new consensus that commends over soft power, preferring it to hard power, and calling for neo-isolationism for the good of the United States; He is wise in his analysis of what America can and must do to remain the dominant world power of the twenty-first century.

A new rebel against old traditions and beliefs in his views, an outstanding academic in his vision of American military policy from the days of Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama It is the most eloquent defense of the sustainable necessity of American hard power that the world needs."