Böcker av Roger Hilsman

This text tells the story of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. It focuses on issues such as the aftermath of the crisis, and the lessons to be learned about defense and foreign policy in an age dominated by missiles capable of obliterating the northern hemisphere.

Sooner or later, if the world keeps following its current course, there will be a nuclear war. The world must still be prepared to deal with three types of war: wars that have the potential for escalating to a nuclear World War III;

During World War II, Roger Hilsman fought in Burma with the legendary Merrill's Marauders until he was machine-gunned. Then, at age twenty-five, he led a battalion of indigenous troops behind Japanese lines. At the war's end, he headed a POW rescue mission to Manchuria, where the prisoners included his own father.