The Cost of Chaos

<b>From a preeminent national security journalist an explosive account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment and with the world</b> <p/>It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real estate developer from Queens promised to bring his brash zero-sum swagger to bear to cut through America's most complex national security issues and he did. If the cost of his America First agenda was bulldozing the edifice of foreign alliances that had been carefully tended by every president from Truman to Obama then so be it. <p/>Very quickly it became clear to a number of people at the highest levels of government that their gravest mission was to protect America from Donald Trump. <i>Trump and His Generals</i> is Peter Bergen's riveting account of what happened when the unstoppable force of President Trump met the immovable object of America's national security establishment--the CIA the State Department and above all the Pentagon. If there is a real deep state in DC it is not the FBI so much as the national security community with its deep-rooted culture and hierarchy. The men Trump selected for his key national security positions Jim Mattis John Kelly and H. R. McMaster were products of that culture: Trump wanted generals and he got them. Three years later they would be gone and the guardrails were off.