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Standard Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Personnel during the critical four years pursuing September 11, 2001, appears back over his career and provides a candid, exposing insider's view of the war on terror and proposing a strong new plan that will put together America for the diverse countrywide security challenges of the twenty-first century.
Growing up in Kansas as the boy of hardworking, nononsense parents, Standard Richard Myers, a distinguished Air Force officer for more than forty years, learned early the value of steadfast integrity and selfless service. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Personnel from 2001 to 2005, he bore witness to the critical happenings that molded America's defense policy in the wake of the terrorist episodes of September 11, 2001. In the days, weeks, and weeks that used, he worked night and day, assisting to devise innovative, unprecedented approaches for the Bush administration's war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq and advising the president on tough, ancient countrywide security decisions.
In this captivating memoir, Standard Myers discussions candidly about his career in the military, the unforgettable happenings of September 11, and the global war on terror. With an insider's perspective, he describes the mistakes created by the White House, Pentagon control, and the brains community.
Myers is convinced that America has misidentified its adversary, centering too narrowly on tactical battles, instead of on a long-range strategy that will conquer a global insurgency fueled by challenging for control within Islam. The United States must rely not only on the military, but also on brains and other instruments of national electric power and work through extant governments to reverse the depiction of the American-led crusade against Muslims. Instead of identify what Islam should become, we should work with a global community which includes responsible non-Western states to protect resistant to the habits we consider universally unacceptable -- especially the ones that promote violence resistant to the U.S. and its allies or any other country or world influenced by the have difficulty within Islam. Finally, Myers maintains we should integrate our very own government organizations so that people can concentrate a sustained method of this strategy.
Informed with unfailing credibility, Eyes on the Horizon is an unforgettable memoir of 1 in our nation's highestranking officials and a courageous demand change that will bolster American countrywide security and protect a democratic life-style.
