Paul Dragos Aligica is senior fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Washington University, faculty fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, associate faculty at the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University, and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.Kenneth R. Weinstein is chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Section 1. Thinking About the Unthinkable: Scenarios, Grand Strategy, and Thermonuclear WarChapter 3 In Defense of ThinkingChapter 4 Twelve Nonissues and Twelve Almost NonissuesChapter 5 The Revolution in Warfare: Continuities and DiscontinuitiesChapter 6 On EscalationChapter 7 Seizing the Moral, Political, and Strategic High GroundPart 8 Section 2. A World Turning Point: Economic Growth, Cultural Change, and the Long ViewChapter 9 The Big Picture—And Some Details: Watersheds of HistoryChapter 10 Viewing Growth in ContextChapter 11 Four Characteristic Views of Two Basic Images of the Earth-Centered PerspectiveChapter 12 Some Current Cultural Contradictions of Economic Growth: The New EmphasesChapter 13 Economic Development: Economic and Cultural ParametersChapter 14 The Alienated-Affluent SocietyPart 15 Section 3. The Challenge of the Future: Futurology, Methodology, and Policy ResearchChapter 16 The Objectives of Future-Oriented Policy ResearchChapter 17 The Agnostic Use of Information and ConceptsChapter 18 Forecasting the Future. History Happens in Straight Lines and CurvesChapter 19 A Methodological Framework: The Alternative World Futures ApproachChapter 20 The Method of Classes of VariablesChapter 21 Ways to Go WrongChapter 22 Technological Innovation: Mistakes of Omission and CommissionPart 23 Section 4. The Task Ahead: Observations, Recommendations, and Parting PolemicsChapter 24 The Normative Perspective and the Ideology of TomorrowChapter 25 Transitional ProblemsChapter 26 The Expert and Educated IncapacityChapter 27 Current Western Cultural TrendsChapter 28 Futurology and the Future of Economic DevelopmentChapter 29 The Task Ahead30 Herman Kahn. A Bio-Bibliographical Note

Herman Kahn’s seminal thinking, extracted in this smart volume, is timeless. From thinking about nuclear war to anticipating the complaints about capitalism and forecasting the future, Kahn offers relevant ideas for today’s challenges of terrorism, financial meltdown, and global warming. An indispensible read or re-read!