Striking power: how cyber, robots, and space weapons change the rules for war
Rabkin, Jeremy A., Yoo, JohnReviews:
Reviewed in the United States on 12 October 2017 Verified Purchase
If you're looking for a well-reasoned, factual analysis of a highly relevant topic you won't find it in this book. Instead, you will find a thinly veiled political diatribe that takes broad-sweeping swipes against unspecified "critics" and "international lawyers" based upon an historically inaccurate and overly rigid view of international law. While the authors encourage the reader to "think anew" they fail to follow their own platitude. Rather, reaching back to the era of gunboat diplomacy and resurrecting the Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, they argue that technology offers the road to security through the increased use of precise, unilateral attacks to coerce U.S. adversaries. This approach of peace through force, however, is only possible if we restructure the international legal system to free the US from unfair rules imposed upon it by an anti-West establishment. Unfortunately, in the process of playing the hegemonic power victim card, the authors ignore or gloss over facts that don't fit their argument, choosing instead to rely up