Scared of US! How an M&M Foreign Policy Can Rescue America from Obama & Hillary's Kumbaya World

Scared of US! How an M&M foreign policy can rescue America from Obama & Hillary's Kumbaya world, is a provocative, strategic guide to saving America from a world where her allies don t trust her and her enemies don t fear her. Strategic and foreign policy expert Patrick Basham applies Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War, to today's global environment to advocate a new national security model: muscular minimalism. An M&M foreign policy would see America doing less around the world, while being better equipped and prepared advance a more narrowly defined and better prioritized set of national interests, such as the destruction of Islamic State within months, not years. Scared of US! contains 12 strategic lessons for policymakers: Lesson 1 Deterrence is everything. Lesson 2 Leadership and resolve can t be overvalued. Lesson 3 Don t pick unwinnable, unnecessary fights. Lesson 4 Have an actual strategy. Lesson 5 Be unassailable; become invincible. Lesson 6 A solution requires an accurate understanding of the threat. Lesson 7 Beware the economic cost of war. Lesson 8 Don t treat friends as enemies; don t treat enemies as friends. Lesson 9 High quality intelligence drives the strategy. Lesson 10 Policy organization matters (especially the human part). Lesson 11 Be secretive, subtle, surprising, deceptive, fast, and flexible. Lesson 12 Take care of your troops (and diplomats). The author dissects President Obama's Bin Laden-style national security policy, explains why America's bowing to Beijing is a perilous Asian pivot, and demonstrates how Obama and Hillary Clinton's Syrian suicide mission succeeded only in breathing life into Islamic State. Basham critiques Clinton s Obama Lite foreign policy, showing how Obama and Clinton s deadly Arab Spring was the catalyst for revolutions that sprung gargantuan leaks and now may drown us all. In doing so, he dismembers Hillary Clinton's North African war and shows how she lost Libya to the terrorists. The book explains who and what really threatens America. In doing so, Basham explains why America s losing the war on terror, and argues for the necessity of rebuilding America s military might. Most controversially, he argues America's grossly mishandled her relationship with Russia. Russia is America's potential partner, not her real enemy. Basham recommends turning over America's foreign aid budget to a campaign, i.e. the war against radical Islamic terrorism, which will actually aid the downtrodden and the dispossessed. A sizeable portion of these funds should be allocated to the Middle Eastern resettlement of political refugees and economic migrants once Islamic State has been eradicated from their homelands. Basham details how the Iranian nuclear deal, which Clinton supports, appeased Tehran at great cost to Western security and Middle Eastern stability. The book also uncovers how the UN enables anti-American jihadists through its promotion of misguided public health policies that serve as a shot in the arm to a global illicit cigarette trade run by terrorist organizations. Obama's fundamental foreign policy problem is a lack of leadership that has led to American impotence. America needs a realistic warrior as commander-in-chief, someone who will rediscover and reapply the peace-through-strength deterrence model President Reagan employed so successfully. Scared of US! recommends the next American president prioritize mutually beneficial relations with countries belonging to the Anglosphere, such as UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, and South Africa. The book also criticizes the Obama administration for treating America's key allies poorly. America s slighting and ignoring of allies is a dangerous diplomatic and security path for American policymakers to tread given the severity of the terrorist threat and China s expansionist ambitions..