New Tools for Fighting the New Terrorist Threat: A Conversation with Juan Zarate

Juan Zarate is one of the nation's most-respected experts in counter-terrorism. Juan was a pioneer in the post-9/11 effort to use all elements of national power, especially economic and financial tools of statecraft, in combatting terrorism, and he went on to be the top coordinator in the Bush White House National Security Council staff with day-to-day responsibility for terrorism issues. Juan's book, Treasury's War, is the seminal book outlining the new techniques of financial warfare -- techniques that have migrated from the fight against terrorist networks to be at the center of U.S. strategy in confronting Russian adventurism, Iranian nuclear ambitions, and other geostrategic threats. Anyone who wants to understand the intersection of economics, finance, foreign policy, and national security will benefit from reading this book. And Duke is fortunate that we can both read the book and discuss it with the author.