In Defense of Force from KQED's Forum Podcast

In an era of terrorism and insurgency, is there an acceptable role for preventive force in our national security policy? Drawing on the findings of the Stanford Task Force on Preventive Force, Hoover Institution fellow Abraham Sofaer looks at this issue in his new book, "The Best Defense?: Legitimacy and Preventive Force."

Download the podcast here. See also: Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945, Obama's Wars, The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's