THREE DANGEROUS MEN

The book's premise is that western global powers have become so good at conventional warfare that our principal state rivals – China, Russia, and Iran – have adopted political warfare as the means to undermine the broader world order, employing everything from cyber attacks, to proxy forces, to special operations and intelligence units, to economic subversion, to propaganda and disinformation.

While some of that may be known to an educated readership, much of it is unknown to the West-- including the rate at which China, Russia and Iran are establishing their advantages.  Seth Jones proposes a novel way of creating this picture, namely through the principal architects of the strategies pursued by rival powers:

General Valery Gerasimov, Russian Chief of the General Staff;

Major General Qassim Suleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp-Quds Force;

and Chen Zhou from the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Science.

In three short chapters (bookended by introductory and concluding chapters), Seth will detail the philosophies, ideologies, and experiences underlying the dominant strategic thoughts and actions of the actors committed to undoing the world order.

This will be a short (50,000 words) and highly provocative book, one that injects the author into the news cycle with a powerful indictment of the current foreign policy culture and climate in Trump’s Washington-- and one that hopefully generates a substantial and unique contribution to the 2020 US elections discussion and the global implications it will have.