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7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century |  | Author: Andrew Krepinevich
Publisher: Bantam
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 24470
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0553805398
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.033073
EAN: 9780553805390
ASIN: 0553805398
Publication Date: January 27, 2009
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A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?
These are the questions that Andrew Krepinevich asks—and answers—in this timely and often chilling new book, which describes the changing face of war in the twenty-first century and identifies seven deadly scenarios that threaten our security in the crucial years ahead. As president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and consultant to secretaries of defense, the CIA, the Homeland Security Council and the Joint Forces Command, Krepinevich’s job is to think the unthinkable—and prepare a response in the event our worst nightmares become reality.
Basing his analysis on open intelligence sources, an assessment of the latest global and political trends, and his knowledge of contemporary military history, Krepinevich starts each of the seven scenarios in the context of current geopolitical realities and vividly tracks the path to crisis. From the implosion of Pakistan to a worldwide cyberattack, from the consequences of a timed withdrawal from Iraq to the likelihood of a China on the march, Krepinevich reveals the forces—both overt and covert—that are in play; the ambitions of world powers, terrorist groups, and rogue states; and the actions and counteractions both our enemies and our allies can be expected to take.
As riveting as a thriller, 7 Deadly Scenarios takes you inside the corridors of power, peers into the world of defense planning, and explores U.S. military and political strategy in the past, present, and likely future. The result is a must-read book that will trigger discussion, thought, and—hopefully—action.
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 Insightful analysis August 18, 2009
Doctor Who (Dallas, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is quite eye-opening as it lays out seven plausible scenarios for calamities that might affect the United States. While it has a heavy military focus, it is not exclusively focused on the military and gives really interesting cases to ponder.
 A Scary Educational Read June 23, 2009
Thomas M. Magee
This book for sure will keep you up at night as well as any horror book. The vividness of the book is incredible. The scenarios seem ripped from the headlines. The scenarios take certain issues and add just a little bit of fiction to tell a scary story. The book takes means to take things say five years down the road. In reality I think the scenarios at times are only months down the road. That is what makes this book oh so scary. After reading the book you realize how close we are to horrible events. His book even has one scenario that sounds like something out of the book of revelation.
The method of the book does something else too. The method of story telling or scenario writing makes people see the large strategic issues and not just focus on the news broadcast of the day. That will for sure open up eyes like a newborn at birth. The last chapter also is a straight bit about strategy or lack of it at the Defense Department. The author does a good job of explaining what strategy is and how to get it. That last chapter is worth the price of the book for sure.
Good book to read, If you dare.
 I read this book 11 years ago June 14, 2009
R. McCabe (NJ USA)
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
Stop me if this sounds familiar. A person who worked in the previous administration of the opposite party writes a book saying that the current administration will let the world blow up and creates hypothetical scenarios that read as his worse case scenario. I could be reviewing 7 Deadly Scenarios, but I'm not. Actually it's this book:
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The similarities are striking. Yes the author has points to make but he also has an agenda to push as well. Both should leave the 24, Tom Clancy stuff to the experts.
A disturbing glimpse of a future to be avoided May 27, 2009
Matthew Clark (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Just like Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" showed a glimpse of a future to be avoided, so to does Krepinevich's 7 Deadly Scenarios. The book outlines very specific paths which could result in, shall we say, rather unpleasant outcomes for the US and its allies.
Each scenario is disturbing in its own way and we are only comforted by the fact that these events have happened...yet. Like Scrooge, we are being given a warning that will allow us to take a different road; if only we will heed that warning.
An interesting read for the armchair military strategist, I sincerely hope that leaders in the upper echelons of government are visiting these, among other, scenarios to try to solve tomorrow's problems before they become problems. 7 Deadly Scenarios is a great read to see how we may very well be fighting our battles in the next decade.
A disturbing peek over the military horizon ... May 25, 2009
Kevin Quinley (Fairfax, VA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Author Andrew Krepinevich has written a chilling cluster of future scenarios in which American power, society and safety may be challenged by both conventional and unconventional foes. 9/11 was minor league compared to some of the situations he describes.
Krepinevich is neither predicting nor ruling out these set pieces, aiming to stimulate strategic thinking and planning for the American military as part of its war gaming.
One can only hope that such scenarios remain in the realm of the abstract. Nevertheless, hope is not a strategy and it is this reader's hope that "Seven Deadly Scenarios" becomes must reading at the Pentagon in order to heighten U.S. preparedness for a perilous world bristling with threats.
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