America Without a Compass

About the Book

Americans tried to fix the world and neglected the home front, resulting in failure at both ends. Ignorance became fashionable and opportunistic polymorphous predators, parasites, and false prophets took advantage of the situation. It is hard to believe how far the nation fell into violent interracial melodramas, political mediocrity, incivility, and confusion. There is no agreement on what is good and evil. Everything is relative, ugly and pretty, real and false, right and wrong. American society suffers from a lack of coherence and consistency, and such a heavy burden of illogical non-sense that it can no longer handle all the contradictions. We are unaware of where we are going…

About the Author

Dr. Fermoselle is a retired U. S. Foreign Service Officer and author of several books and multiple articles on a wide variety of subjects. He has worked for several years as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. From 2004 to 2007, he worked at the US European Command (USEUCOM) in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was a member of the SOSA team, and the Strategy, Policy and Assessments Directorate, Effects Assessment Cell. Prior to his assignment at USEUCOM, Dr. Fermoselle was a SOSA instructor at the Standing Joint Forces Headquarters (SJFHQ-CE-T/S), at the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM). He participated in TASK FORCE IV (Reconstruction of Iraq), in support of the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), in advance of the invasion in 2003, and in the training to stand up SOSA cells at the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) during 2003 and 2004. In 2007 he worked at DIA’s CNT-4, and deployed to Iraq in 2008 as a Senior Social Scientist with the U.S. Army Human Terrain program. In 2009-2010 he authored a book-length paper on Methodology for Analyzing Insurgency: lessons learned 2002-2008 for DIA and ODNI. Dr. Fermoselle teaches Intelligence Analysis as an Adjunct Professor in the Criminology Department of George Mason University.