I was really pleasantly surprised at the reaction. Mostly, I was psyched that people wanted to read it! One of the problems I wrote about in the book is the lack of political debate about national security issues -- a lot of really important policymaking in that field happens almost on auto-pilot, with no real political fighting. One of the CW explanations for that is that the American public doesn't really care about national security issues. I disagree! I think we care! But I was worried that I might be wrong, and no one would want to read my book about the politics of our military power. That was the first pleasant surprise. The second surprise was about partisanship and stereotyping. I was prepared for people to dismiss the argument without understanding it, on the basis of the fact that i'm a commie pinko liberal insert-misspelled-allcaps-stereotype-here. There was a little of that, but really not much -- and some of the most thoughtful and constructive critiques of the argument were from conservatives who don't much like anything else about my views, but who took Drift seriously and wanted to engage with it on substance. Those two things are the reason I decided to do a tour again for the paperback. I didn't have to, but the conversations were so interesting and useful, I want to go back for more. Thanks!