Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our

Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national securityâ€”and the actions needed to protect us.

Americaâ€™s inability to foresee the September 11, 2001 attacks was deemed a collective â€œfailure of imagination.â€Â Our political leaders and intelligence professionals failed to anticipate the wide-ranging and unorthodox threats to the nationâ€™s security.

Nearly a decade and a half later, imaginations in Washington D.C. are still failing.
Despite assurances from our leaders that America is safer today than it was before 9/11, the truth is, we are still vulnerable.

Congressman MichaelÂ McCaulÂ has spent years in Washington watching the Obama administration ignore or dangerously underestimate the most pressing threats to the country.

Now inÂ Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homelandâ€”and How to Thwart Them, the sitting chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, who receives daily intelligence about threats materializing against America, depicts in real time the hazards that are closer than we realize.Â From cyber-warriors who can cripple the Eastern seaboard to radicalized Americans in league with Islamic jihadists to invisible biological warfare, many of the most pressing dangers are the ones we've heard about the leastâ€”and are doing the least about.

In this compelling and action-packed narrative,Â McCaulÂ outlines realistic scenarios that could inflict more damage on the nation than any attack weâ€™ve yet faced.Â He then explains how our vulnerabilities were created, why our enemies are actively contemplating them, and what we can do to solve them before itâ€™s too late.

Failures of ImaginationÂ offers a call to action for Americans to address these very real and present dangers, and the need for the White Houseâ€”whoever its occupant will beâ€”to combat them with the seriousness and urgency they require.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Forum Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-12
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101905425

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Forum Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-01-12
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101905425

Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

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