The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
English | March 3rd, 2020 | ISBN: 019026568X, 1925849155 | 336 pages | EPUB | 3.25 MB
Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a "bewildering variety of poisonous snakes."