Pentagon Strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer on “Provocative Weakness” and the Necessity of a new Responsible Elite

In Berlin, Munich, Washington D.C. and New York the nonprofit World Security Network Foundation (New York) presented the latest book by its founder and president, the German businessman Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, on the legendary Pentagon strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer: Fritz Kraemer On Excellence.Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist. The book includes contributions from Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld (USD 99,-; exclusive first limited edition, online orders and preview at www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).

Fritz Kraemer was for thirty years the éminence grise in the Pentagon. He discovered and mentored over decades the American Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig. They have provided outstanding descriptions for this book detailing the extent of the positive influence and impressions this German emigrant made on them.

Henry Kissinger: “Fritz Kraemer was the greatest single influence of my formative years. He shaped my reading and thinking ,awakened my interest in political philosophy and history.An extraordinary man who will be part of my life as long as I draw breath.”

Alexander Haig said of him: “I can think of no individual before or since whose patient tutelage made a more meaningful contribution to the shaping of my own worldview”

And the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld praised Kraemer as, “The true keeper of the Holy Flame at the Pentagon. His courageous and brilliant career was an example for us all.”

Hubertus Hoffmann—protégé of Fritz Kraemer for twenty-five years—conducted numerous background conversations with his mentor during the last decades in Washington and molded the wisdom of this “philosopher at the Potomac” following his death last year into this outstanding book.

Fritz Kraemer on Excellence is the antithesis in book form of Michael Moore’s satire Fahrenheit 9/11, as it explains the necessity, based on decades of experience, for America to be strong and vigilant, and not to reveal “provocative weakness” in the face of fanatics. Diplomacy is impossible without the power to back it up; weakness aggravates and therefore leads to war.

Kraemer pleads vehemently for a new elite of young people to take on responsibility in the world and in society, people who aren’t driven by privilege but by carrying the burden of responsibility.

This exclusive first edition, limited to 2,000 copies, impresses through its unconventional and progressive design, which one normally finds only in expensive art books. Bound in luxurious grey linen with a real monocle on the cover (Kraemer’s distinguishing trademark), it is elaborately laid out in black-and-white and contains on its 204 pages more than 300 photos, most of which have never been published. These bring Fritz Kraemer and his world of ideals into the living room.