David H. McCormick

David H. McCormick draws on U.S. Army service, government work, technology leadership, and investment management in Superpower in Peril. The book argues that American renewal requires stronger leadership, wider economic opportunity, technological capacity, institutional reform, and a deliberate response to competition with China. Its full subtitle, A Battle Plan to Renew America, signals that the work is a political program rather than a neutral history. Center Street published the hardcover in 2023. McCormick graduated from the United States Military Academy, served as an Army paratrooper during the Gulf War, earned a doctorate from Princeton, and later held posts at the Commerce and Treasury departments and the National Security Council. He also led software companies and became chief executive of Bridgewater Associates. James M. Cunningham collaborated on the book, bringing policy research experience from the Hoover Institution and American Enterprise Institute. Superpower in Peril connects those military, public-service, and business roles to a conservative case for national resilience, while readers can evaluate its prescriptions as one participant's political argument.