One attraction of being National Security Advisor is the sheer multiplicity and volume of challenges that confront you. If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and the sheer amount of work, and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description—try something else. It is exhilarating, but it is nearly impossible to explain to outsiders how the pieces fit together, which they often don’t in any coherent way.

这本592页的新书披露特朗普对一系列国际政治问题进行决策的过程，包括乌克兰、委内瑞拉、朝鲜和伊朗等问题。作为国家安全顾问的一个吸引人之处就是你所面临的挑战的多样性和数量。如果你不喜欢混乱、不确定性和风险，而总是被信息、要做的决定和大量的工作所淹没，并被国际和国内的个性和自我冲突所激活这是令人振奋的，但几乎不可能向局外人解释这些碎片是如何组合在一起的，而他们通常没有任何连贯的方式。