Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. spent three decades as a U.S. diplomat, winding up his government service as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He was the principal American interpreter during President Nixon's breakthrough visit to Beijing; served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; and designed NATO's transformation into a Europe-wide security system. Since his retirement from government, Freeman has remained actively engaged on five continents and has continued to speak and write widely on issues of international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
"Chas Freeman is one of our country's best practitioners of diplomacy, an art he argues we have neglected in favor of military options... He has given us a wake up call. Let's hope we hear it."Hon. Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense "No diplomat of his generation has a finer intelligence, a better ear to listen, as great a willingness to pierce self-deception or as gifted a pen as Chas Freeman. Insight leaps from every page of this remarkable volume."--Jessica T. Matthews, former President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace "If you don't know whether to laugh or cry about America's bungling and ineptitude in this all-important region, you're certain to do both reading Freeman's rueful and iconoclastic narrative."Robert Dreyfuss, contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation "If I could, I'd get this book on the curriculum of every service academy and defense college and university. Our military will pay the price for our wrong-headed policies unless we change them. Freeman shows the way." M.J. Rosenberg , veteran political commentator
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