Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations

Fred Charles Iklé

November, 2006
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13952-6
$26.50 / £15.50

"The great value of Mr. Iklé's book: to make us consider the worst." — Walter Laqueur, The Wall Street Journal



"[Annihilation from Within] should be on every Pentagon reading list." — Austin Bay, Washington Times

"Ikle addresses a reality we prefer to ignore." — George Walden, Bloomberg

"A sobering exploration of the perils of progress." — Eric Cohen, Weekly Standard

"A book that should be read by every serious citizen, especially those responsible for our national security." — R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., American Spectator

"A grim assessment of America’s vulnerability." — David Ignatius, Washington Post

"An extremely important and readable book... that requires attention." — Richard W. Rahn, The Washington Times

"With an engrossing interpretation of our history since the Modern Age, Fred Iklé explains this new era where the survival of leading nations will be threatened from within." — Henry A. Kissinger

"Annihilation from Within represents a lifetime of thinking and experience and deep but controlled emotion." — Robert Jervis, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Security Studies

About the Author

Fred Charles Iklé was undersecretary of defense for policy during the Reagan administration and served Presidents Nixon and Ford as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1999 he was a member of the National Commission on Terrorism and in 2001 he became a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He is a Distinguished Scholar at The Center of International and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., and is the author of several books, including Every War Must End (Columbia) and How Nations Negotiate.

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