{"id":3005,"date":"2009-01-27T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2009-01-27T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:56:51","slug":"new-book-threats-in-the-age-of-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"New Book &#8211; Threats in the Age of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tttaob_cover_cropped.jpg\" title=\"tttaob_cover_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tttaob_cover_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"tttaob_cover_cropped.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am both excited and\u00a0very pleased to announce the release of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934840807?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1934840807\"><strong><em>Threats in the Age of Obama<\/em><\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934840807\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/>\u00a0by <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nimblebooks.com\/\">Nimble Books<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edited by my friend<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/threatswatch.org\/\"> <strong>Michael Tanji<\/strong><\/a>, a former senior member of the intelligence community, the volume is a 224 page\u00a0 A-Z anthology on the\u00a0cutting edge\u00a0security challenges faced by the United States in the 21st century and the strategic thinking required to deal with them. Tanji recruited an impressive stable of experts, many with high level USG and private sector experience,\u00a0in intelligence, cyberwarfare, terrorism, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, human terrain,\u00a0information operations, public diplomacy, foreign policy and national security. It was a high\u00a0honor for me\u00a0to be included among the authors, who are:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/\"><strong>Dan tdaxp<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/christopheralbon.com\/\"><strong>Christopher Albon<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mountainrunner.us\/\"><strong>Matt Armstrong<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewburton.org\"><strong>Matthew Burton<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techventures.org\/TVC-ECS\/documents\/Volius.pdf\"><strong>Molly Cernicek<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&amp;event_id=98295\"><strong>Christopher Corpora<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oz.deichman.net\/\"><strong>Shane Deichman<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rethinkingsecurity.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Adam Elkus<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/matt.devost.net\/\"><strong>Matt Devost<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ctovision.com\/\"><strong>Bob Gourley<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartegic.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Art Hutchinson<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/scholars\/id.62\/scholar.asp\"><strong>Tom Karako<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/projects\/pageid.2086\/default.asp\"><strong>Carolyn Leddy<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selil.com\/\"><strong>Samuel Liles<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/a517dogg.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Adrian Martin<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1raindrop.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Gunnar Peterson<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/whirledview.typepad.com\/\"><strong>Cheryl Rofer<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Mark Safranski<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/threatswatch.org\/tw\/steve-schippert\/\"><strong>Steve Schippert<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ubiwar.com\/\"><strong>Tim Stevens<\/strong><\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/\"><strong>Shlok Vaidya<\/strong><\/a>. And last, but really first, editor, contributor and chief cat-herder, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/threatswatch.org\/tw\/michael-tanji\/\"><strong>Michael Tanji<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;.If you are on a mission to change the way government works, particularly in the national security arena, this is one a place where some independent and intellectually diverse thinking is to be found. In these essays, we offer our view of some of the more pressing threats the Obama administration will have to deal with in these early days of the 21st century.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If support the idea that the national security establishment needs to embrace change, then this is the book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am both excited and\u00a0very pleased to announce the release of\u00a0Threats in the Age of Obama\u00a0by Nimble Books.\u00a0 Edited by my friend Michael Tanji, a former senior member of the intelligence community, the volume is a 224 page\u00a0 A-Z anthology on the\u00a0cutting edge\u00a0security challenges faced by the United States in the 21st century and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,420,133,270,571,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-authors","category-book","category-national-security","category-nimble-books","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}