Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

Special Characters

Introduction

Part I: Russia

Chapter 1: Fear, Honor, and Ambition: Mr. Putin’s Campaign to Kill the West’s Cow

Chapter 2: Parrying Putin’s Playbook

Part II: China

Chapter 3: An Obsession with Control: The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to Freedom and Security

Chapter 4: Turning Weakness into Strength

Part III: South Asia

Chapter 5: A One-Year War Twenty Times Over: America’s South Asian Fantasy

Chapter 6: Fighting for Peace

Part IV: Middle East

Chapter 7: Who Thought It Would Be Easy? From Optimism to Resignation in the Middle East

Chapter 8: Breaking the Cycle

Part V: Iran

Chapter 9: A Bad Deal: Iran’s Forty-Year Proxy Wars and the Failure of Conciliation

Chapter 10: Forcing a Choice

Part VI: North Korea

Chapter 11: The Definition of Insanity

Chapter 12: Making Him Safer Without Them

Part VII: Arenas

Chapter 13: Entering the Arena

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Recommended Reading

Index

Photo Section

About the Author

Also by H. R. McMaster

Copyright

About the Publisher