JOHN A. DAVENPORT
Over the past several winters, Atlantic storms have been tearing with unusual fury at the beaches along the coast of southern New Jersey, endangering the homes of those who live there year-round. One such resident, Judge Robert Morris, has so far avoided catastrophe by painstaking effort: he has built a series of storm fences to protect the dunes and transplanted tufts of grass to hold their shifting sands in place. Now in a new book, Self-Destruct: Dismantling America’s Internal Security, Morris applies this lesson on a national scale. It is time, and past time, that the U.S. repaired and rebuilt the military and diplomatic ramparts that might protect us against Communist subversion at home and the steady inroads of Soviet power abroad.
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