Review Of My Latest Book...

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Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute.  Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an advisor to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. Also see his Three Sages Substack at and his American Geopolitical Institute articles at https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/

So he writes about the book and me:

Andrei Martyanov’s background is unique. Educated at a Soviet military academy, he spent a career as an officer with the Soviet Coast Guard. Here in the U.S., we tend to look at the Coast Guard as namby-pamby, not real hard-core military. But not in the Soviet Union, where Coast Guard members may easily find themselves in a war zone, particularly in the Black Sea region. Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Andrei Martyanov relocated to the U.S. to work in commercial aerospace and became an American citizen. But as an American, he did not like what he was seeing through the decade of the 1990s and into the 2000s. He saw not only the decline of America as a civilization but also the failure of its military establishment to maintain a level of competence, maturity, and responsibility befitting a great power. In particular, he saw that the U.S. had not fought a real war against an equal opponent since World War II. And even then, he reminds us that it was the Soviets that took the brunt of the fighting against Germany in Europe.

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