Douglas Meyer's Reviews > The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

A must read for anyone in the defense, national security, policy, and military -space. Prose - the former Senate Armed Service Committee Staff Director for the late Senator McCain and current Head of Strategy at Anduril Industries and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - outlines a compelling vision of future war, its inherent risks, what got us here, and what will get us there. If the 2018 National Defense Strategy, drafted at the direction and oversight of then Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, is the skeleton - Brose's work is the muscle. Great power competition requires leadership...real leadership. Leaders that set priorities, make hard decisions, drive the military industrial complex, and persuade the massive US government geopolitical machine toward preparing for the realities of the 21st century landscape. The Kill Chain is the most compelling book on future war I have read in the last three + years and perhaps the most comprehensive vision of a way forward.