Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, he is also the author or editor of several books, including The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age, The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today, and Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, with Michael Beckley.
Brands contends, indeed convincingly, that if this war has proven so globally transfixing, perhaps that's because it reminds us of ugly realities—the viciousness of autocratic aggression, the destructiveness of large-scale war, the fragility of international order—we might prefer to forget. —Cipher Brief [A] deeply fascinating and valuable book. —CHACR Critique