Cul de Sac: 9/11 and the Paradox of American Power

(printable PDF version) (HTML version) by Carl Conetta, PDA Research Monograph #13, 05 February 2008. Post-Cold War US security policy evinces a disturbing paradox: it has been delivering less and less security at ever increasing cost. The reasons reside not in the differences between the Bush and Clinton administration, but in their points of similarity.