Funny enough, I found Paul Rogers’ book in a used bookshop in the middle of Maine a few weeks ago. It was printed in March 2000 and is the second edition of its kind. I found online that there are now four (4) editions to Losing Control. Rogers’ reflections and fears for the future reign true and it is haunting as he writes in 2000 his worries for the future of American foreign policy. He explains it as a form of maintaining control, “this will probably involve a series of multiple responses that go well beyond attempting to dismantle the al-Qaeda network that is believed to be responsible for the attacks…”
Rogers prophetically writes, “stretching on from the current era of pilot-less aircraft, small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can roam and deploy weapons at will, together with cyber-war and other techniques intended to disable an enemy’s command and control systems and wreck an economy.” Rogers main argument is that this mode of security will not work and that an “alternative security paradigm” is needed.
Rogers also introduces an alternative approach to international security and peace which he labels as in interest of “human justice”.