title: 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
author: Andrew Krepinevich
description: Andrew Krepinevich is one of the most insightful voices we now have on national security issues. You can read this bookor we can go on learning the hard way. Thomas E. Ricks, military correspondent, <i>Washington Post,</i> and author of <i>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq<br /></i><br />This insightful and provocative book must be read by our nations leaders, and those who are charged with protecting us now and into the next decade. Bing West, author of <i>The Strongest Tribe </i>and <i>No True Glory<br /><br /></i>Andrew Krepinevich has shown, once again, how best to think about the unthinkable. This prescient book identifies the all-too-real threats that our country faces and prescribes the steps that the president, the military, and Congress must take to meet them. Senator Joe Lieberman<br /><i><br /></i>Andrew Krepinevich is one of the most original and insightful strategic thinkers of our time.His thought provoking scenarios of the most critical areas of national security policy raise profound and necessary questions that must be addressed today in order to prevail tomorrow. Senator Jack Reed <br /><br />Compelling.... the scenarios vividly illustrate how recent changes in technology, demographics, economics and war-fighting can expose little-suspected, but easily exploited, chinks in America's armor.... I would feel ... reassured today to see President Barack Obama with a copy of military futurist Krepinevich's <b>7 Deadly Scenarios.</b> Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates would do well to put it on their reading lists, too. And so should you.<i>Wall Street Journal</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  ## 9 Days Falling, Volume I
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Kirov - 5 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John A. Schettler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The war foreshadowed in Kirov’s long voyage to the past has now begun and will
  escalate over 9 days as humanity begins its descent into oblivion. Now the
  officers and crew of _Kirov_ hold the last straw of hope in the bottom of
  Pandora’s jar as they struggle to prevent the war from ever happening.
  
  
  Join Admiral Leonid Volsky, Captain Vladimir Karpov and ex navigator Anton
  Fedorov, each one holding one piece of the confounding puzzle that might save
  the world from imminent destruction. As Karpov confronts the US 7th Fleet in
  the Pacific, Fedorov leads a daring mission to the past to search for Gennadi
  Orlov. Meanwhile Admiral Volsky is embroiled deeper in the web of mystery
  surrounding Rod-25, and forges an unexpected alliance with a powerful figure
  in the Russian Government.
  
  
  As the war begins, a British company struggles to secure vit