Businesses, entities, programs with "freedom," "patriot," "liberty," in their names, especially when promoted with "Veteran owned" and so on are immediately suspect to me, based on experience -- typically, I've seen that kind of thing advance (in the name of national security, of course) restricting freedoms in order to protect freedom and so on, and this book's proposal of a Freedom Trade Alliance stinks to me as more of that control-surrendering authoritarianism-promoting crap as it advocates restricting economic freedom in order to protect it. The supposed bad guys are China, Russia, and maybe KSA and maybe some Islamist nations, unless you're UAE (yes, really). Big name praise quotes on the cover indicate he appears to be persuading others, reason enough to read the book, even if like me you're not persuaded. For Bible students: the proposed Freedom Trade Alliance is not merely to be one of the super strong (Europe-US), but specifically wants to add others in stages, such as India and Brazil from BRIC, an iron-clay type of alliance. Other ways to look at this proposal: economic warfare in order to prevent military warfare, neconservatism repackaged (utopian "democracy" spreading but not via nation building, rather via Babel building -- but is it really democratic if the those within the Alliance are so heavily regulated?) At some point the author even casually poo-pooed the notion of foreign countries anymore, seriously. The author keeps saying one thing (democracy, democracy, democracy) while planning to act opposite that thing by power consolidation and liberty limitations. The book is a display of fear mongering disguised as pragmatic crisis prevention. So, for ex, if you like preventive detention to "prevent" future crime you might like this book. If you like drone target-killing American citizens without trial to "prevent" possible terrorism, you might like this book. If you like scheming humans playing Savior of the world, you might like this book. And if you like being a frog in boiling water you might like this book, for as with other futurist books (such as the recent Virtual Society) the proposed reorientation is to be brought in by stages (palatable, restricting, barely tolerable, too late, just submit...). As for me and my house... ( )