While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
by Donald Kagan and
Frederick W. Kagan
St. Martin's Press * 2000 * 483 pages * $32.50
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy
edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol
Encounter Books * 2000 * 401 pages * $22.95
Americans who read While America Sleeps and Present Dangers might not recognize the world presented. The United States is at risk and embattled, sleeping while potential enemies march. Conflict, war, and disaster threaten at every turn. It is like Britain before World War II and America …