Waking Up the Giant: The Strategy for American Victory and World Freedom

In what may be the most important book in a long and productive career, eminent strategist Stefan T. Possony describes in gripping narrative form the policies a knowledgeable anti-communist would follow as President of the United States. While the characters in 'Waking Up the Giant' are fictional, the situations they face are as real as the War Room in the Pentagon and the button on the President's desk. A strategy aiming at world freedom is both feasible and necessary, Possony affirms. His President demonstrates how to put this policy to work without nuclear war. We follow the President as different strategists compete for his approval. We watch him make life-or-death decisions. We get an insider's view of what is really happening throughout the world - in Europe, in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia. Dr. Possony also focuses on area and problems that are usually treated superficially, if at all, by armchair strategists. Throughout, the conversations are like tape recordings - in the language of the White House and the Pentagon, by a man who has been there, often. Possony makes one truth stand out: there can be no lasting security for America until world communism is defeated and the nations of the world are governed by regimes responsive to their people.