I read Andrei Martyanov’s book, The Real Revolution in Military Affairs, and it was excellent. I recommend it for anyone who wants to get past the US defense and foreign policy establishment’s blather. I’m looking forward to reading Martyanov’s latest when its available and The Saker’s review whet my appetite. From The Saker at unz.com:
This is the third book by Andrei Martyanov that I am reviewing, the first one was “Book Review – Losing Military Supremacy: the Myopia of American Strategic Planning by Andrei Martyanov”, while the second one was “Book Review: Andrei Martyanov’s The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs”. I also interviewed Andrei about this second volume here. The book I am reviewing today, “Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse” can be pre-ordered from Clarity Press here and from Amazon here.
If the first two volumes mostly focused on issues of force planning and military power, this third volume addresses the wider context and shows example after example that the United States is not only failing at its attempts to remain a world hegemon, but the US is, in fact, in a process we could call “full-spectrum collapse” or, like Martyanov, simply “disintegration”. Specifically, the book looks into the manifestation of disintegration in the following spheres:
- Consumption
- Affluenza
- Geoeconomics
- Energy
- Making Things
- Western Elites
- Losing the Arms Race
- Empire Über Alles – Including Americans
- To Be or Not To Be
- Conclusion: Not Exceptional, Not Free, Not Prosperous – Not America?
These are tantalizing subject headings which I will not further describe because I really want to really encourage as many people as possible to read this book. Why?
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 