Confront and Conceal

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{{short description|English nonfiction book}}

{{Infobox book

|name = Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

|image = Confront_and_Conceal_cover.jpeg

|author = David E. Sanger

|language = English

|country = United States

|genre = Non-fiction

|publisher = Random House

|pub_date = 2012

|pages = 448

|isbn = 978-0307718020

}}Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power is a 2012 book by David E. Sanger. It discusses the foreign policy of the Obama administration, with an emphasis on the president's use of covert operations, drone strikes, and cyberwarfare.{{cite news

|last = Temple-Raston

|first = Dina

|title =Book review: Daniel Klaidman's 'Kill or Capture' and David Sanger's 'Confront and Conceal'

|newspaper = The Washington Post

|date = June 15, 2012

|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-klaidmans-kill-or-capture-and-david-sangers-confront-and-conceal/2012/06/15/gJQANAxVfV_story.html

|access-date = January 30, 2019

}}{{cite journal |last1= Mead |first1= Walter |date=December 2012 |title= Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power |journal= Council on Foreign Relations |volume= 91 |issue= 6 |pages= 178 |jstor= 41720962 }}{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Heather|date= November 2013 |title= Confront and conceal Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power|journal=Royal Institute of International Affairs |volume=89 |issue=6 |pages=1538–1539 |jstor=24538494}} In 2016, the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal investigators regarding his alleged disclosure of classified information to Sanger about the military use of the Stuxnet computer worm on the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, an operation detailed in the book.{{cite web

|last = Ricks

|first = Thomas

|author-link= Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

|title =Covert Wars, Waged Virally

|work = Book Review

|date = June 5, 2012

|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/books/confront-and-conceal-by-david-sanger.html

|access-date = January 30, 2019

}}{{cite web

| title = Retired general pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators

| publisher = CBS

| date = October 17, 2016

| url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retired-marine-gen-james-cartwright-charged-with-false-statements-in-leak-probe/

| access-date = January 30, 2019 }}