A review by hoboken
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas

4.0

Thomas's usual excellent job and excellent writing. It is an ominous paradox that it takes a experienced military expert to understand the horrible costs and total unpredictability of war, how important it is to avoid it, and to know how to handle the people and forces pushing for it. Ike understood the generals at the Pentagon and the men whose greatest concern was to create conditions where they could maintain power and profit from arms sales. No President since has had his credibility or deep insight as our history from Viet Nam to current Syrian war talk demonstrates.