Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Financial Crisis -- Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction -- The Predicted Financial Storm Has Arrived -- 2. The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy -- Mechanistic Destruction: American Foreign Policy at Point Zero -- A Rational Perspective on Our Present Crises -- The Dilemmas of American Foreign Policy -- 3. Alliances and NATO -- Alliances and the American Election -- 4. Israel: A Stalemated Accident of History -- Israel: Mythologising a Twentieth-Century Accident -- Israel's Last Chance -- 5. The United States and War with Iran -- Israel, Iran and the Bush Administration -- Will the US Attack Iran -- 6. The Limits of Intelligence -- The Limits of Intelligence, The Cold War, Vietnam and Iraq -- 7. Technology and the Future of Warfare -- The Great Equalizer: Lessons From Iraw and Lebanon -- Defeat: Rumsfeld and the American Way of War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.