By: Graham Allison, read in 2020

7 "...the rule of 72-divide 72 by the annual growth rate to determine when an economy or investment will double"
201 "The term "cold war" was coined by none other than George Orwell"
201 "In his historic Long Telegram from Moscow just nine months after V-E Day, George Kennan (then America's chargé d'affaires in Moscow) warned that expansionist Soviet communism was a "political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the US there could be no permanent modus vivendi." At its core, Kennan said, Soviet Communists believed it was necessary that "our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure." Confronting such an adversary, America could survive only by destroying the USSR, or transforming it."
207 "...today's arsenals include single nuclear bombs with more explosive power than all of the bombs that have been dropped in all the wars in history."
215 "...statecraft is more a matter of riding waves of history than making them."

My assessment of this book's author is that he is a good example of the intellectuals described by Thomas Sowell: specious, irresponsible, and never held to account. He completely misses the revelation by Michael Pillsbury that Nixon, Kissinger and all succeeding administrations until Trump, were completely hoodwinked by Mao and his successors right up to Xi. Good thing Allison is not one of Trump's advisors.