Books by William E. Odom

Combines political theory and knowledge of counter-insurgencvy warfare

Examines America's unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture.

Security depends on intelligence, and in this book a leading authority discusses basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them. For this edition he provides a new preface in which he assesses the security recommendations of the recently released Congressional committee report on 9/11.

This study of the rise and fall of the Soviet military, argues that it had a greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author describes the state of the Soviet military during the 1980s and then moves to the events that led to its destruction.