Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws

In this incisive examination of our national security policy Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia Africa and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq Iran Libya and North Korea especially-became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold War levels of military sping.