At a time when our freedoms were under fire, Eric Schmitt and a small team at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office stood in the breach, fighting it out with the Left in the one place where truth still mattered: America’s courts.
It started with mask mandates. Then came the vaccine mandates. Then came wide open borders, the weaponization of government agencies, and a vast censorship enterprise that was created to crush dissent.
When Joe Biden took office, Eric Schmitt had been the attorney general of Missouri for just over two years, fighting crime and keeping the streets safe. As soon as he began seeing the outrageous overreaches of the Biden administration, he and his crack team of lawyers snapped into action, waging war on the Biden regime’s stunning attempts at government overreach.
Now, in The Third Option Schmitt, a rising star in the GOP, takes readers behind the scenes of those battles for the first time. He describes how he and his team fought mask and vaccine mandates, battled illegal student loan forgiveness, and tried to hold back the tide of illegal immigration until conservatives could take back the White House. He also reveals how they uncovered and began to dismantle the Biden administration’s vast censorship enterprise, laying the groundwork for the Twitter Files and all that came after. Today, with President Trump back in power and the left fighting him every step of the way, it’s more important than ever to remember just how close we came to losing it all—and why we need to keep playing to win.
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way.
In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement has fashioned an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the cowboy slogans that characterized the U.S. government's public posture. Adapting themes from classic Cold War deterrence theory, these strategists have expanded the field of battle in order to disrupt jihadist networks in ever more creative ways.
Schmitt and Shanker take listeners deep into this theater of war, as ground troops, intelligence operatives, and top executive branch officials have worked together to redefine and restrict the geography available for Al Qaeda to operate in. They also show how these new counterterrorism strategies, adopted under George W. Bush and expanded under Barack Obama, were successfully employed in planning and carrying out the dramatic May 2011 raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed.
Filled with startling revelations about how our national security is being managed, Counterstrike will change the way Americans think about the ongoing struggle with violent radical extremism.
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