David E. Sanger
FROM INSIDE OBAMAâ€™S SITUATION ROOM . . . THE CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN, THE STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH A RECALCITRANT PAKISTAN AND ITS FAST-GROWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL, THE TENSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN MILITARY OVER AFGANISTAN AND WITH ALLIES SWEPT UP IN THE CHAOS OF THE ARAB SPRING,Â ,Three and a half years ago, David Sangerâ€™s bookÂ ,The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,Â described how a new American president came to office with the world on fire. Now, just as the 2012 presidential election battle begins, Sanger follows up with an eye-opening, news-packed account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons and reconfigured tools of American power to try to manage a series of new threats. Sanger describes how Obamaâ€™s early idealism about fighting â€œa war of necessityâ€ in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue and frustration, how the early hopes that the Arab Spring would bring about a democratic awakening slipped away, and how an effort to re-establish American power in the Pacific set the stage for a new era of tensions with the worldâ€™s great rising power, China.Â ,As the world seeks to understand the contours of the Obama Doctrine,Â ,Confront and Conceal,Â is a fascinating, unflinching account of these complex years, in which the president and his administration have found themselves struggling to stay ahead in a world where power is diffuse and Americaâ€™s ability to exert control grows ever more elusive.
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Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power