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title: "Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics (American Interest Books)"
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# Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics (American Interest Books)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good Material, Not So Good Writing
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2013*

If you want a good book on this subject, read one of Nassim Taleb's books.He covers much of the same material, and he writes better.---After reading this book, I am convinced that truly unexpected eventsare very rare:  What is mostly going on is that decision makers ignoreobvious trends and fail to make contingency plans for low-probabilityevents.  Then, they say stuff like:"No one could have foreseen the attacks of 9/11", or"It was not possible to anticipate the financial crisis".(Tom Clancy was writing books about 9/11-type events 20 yearsbefore it happened, and lots of people on Wall Street were talkingabout the financial crisis before the news media noticed.Meredith Whitney comes to mind.)I think that the real problem in creating policy with regardto low-probability events is that the public allows incompetentpeople to say "Golly Gosh, NOBODY could POSSIBLY have predictedthat" and get away with it.Anyway, I cannot recommend this book, on the grounds of poor writing style.

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    Outstanding collection
  

*by E***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2012*

This compilation by Francis Fukuyama, is an excellent compilation of the work of several up and coming authors. They approach the subject of national security in a unique and thought provoking manner. While some positions are debatable, it nevertheless makes excellent reading and stimulation g mind gymnastics. Recommended

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    Five Stars
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2014*

great book

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