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A review by jbelang85
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
3.0
Overall, this was a good book, but not a great one. I will start off with something most people have said. The first half of the book is a mini biography/eulogy for Ronan Farrow’s mentor, With some segways to another State Department official. The middle section, he discusses various areas where military foreign policy has failed. The last brief section talks about the Iran negotiations minor, short lived success with North Korea and how the Trump administration basically destroyed them.
Farrow prose is quite good and I enjoyed the book. But I found overall, his theme was not served. This was not a collection of op-ed’s rather than a concise book on foreign policy. I felt like he leaped to much praise in the first part of the book. I felt the second part was inconsistent and did not fully follow through on the point he was making. He talked about a war crime our Afghan allies may have committed and the silence the US had, but did not fully connect to the overall theme of the book. He then moves on the Africa and Colombia, but I felt like each story never reached the ultimate conclusion he was going after.
Overall, good and Farrow is an excellent writer, but I felt like the book was lacking which kept it from being a great book.
Farrow prose is quite good and I enjoyed the book. But I found overall, his theme was not served. This was not a collection of op-ed’s rather than a concise book on foreign policy. I felt like he leaped to much praise in the first part of the book. I felt the second part was inconsistent and did not fully follow through on the point he was making. He talked about a war crime our Afghan allies may have committed and the silence the US had, but did not fully connect to the overall theme of the book. He then moves on the Africa and Colombia, but I felt like each story never reached the ultimate conclusion he was going after.
Overall, good and Farrow is an excellent writer, but I felt like the book was lacking which kept it from being a great book.