Being a self-confessed bookaholic, I thought maybe we should highlight and recommend some weekend reading each Wednesday. In this week's (and our first) recommendation, Michael Mandelbaum offers a robust and in-depth explanations of an enormous national security threat of our own creation: the United States ever expanding out of control federal deficit. His conclusion is both dramatic and frighteningly on point: While a good portion of the world may dislike the seemingly all-powerful United States, they will soon come to regret the creation of a weakened United States due to grotesque fiscal profligacy -- in short, the United States is at risk of becoming a nation no longer capable of projecting soft or hard power globally. The book, which was published last year, is particularly timely as Congress and the White House exit a ridiculous squabble over the 2011 budget and begin to battle over the 2012 federal budget -- a debate which the White House seems to not take as seriously as they should. Mandelbaum provides a good primer of how the global shifts could be significant and severe without the US getting their fiscal house in order. If you want to get a deeper sense of what we are truly facing, then read this book.
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