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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE: WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?; PART ONE THE STATE OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY; 1. THE DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY; National Security in the Decades Since World War II; How America Lost Its Confidence-Vietnam and Its Impact; The Condition and Direction of the Economy; The Body Politic; PART TWO NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY, PAST AND FUTURE; 2. STRATEGY SINCE WORLD WAR II; 3. CHANGES IN THE WORLD BALANCE; Changes in the Economic Balance: The Rise of Europe and Japan |
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Changes in the Military Balance: Bipolar to MultipolarTurmoil in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism; Weakening of Forward Defense; Loss of the Strategic Initiative; 4. NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ARMS CONTROL AND WORLD PEACE; The End of 2500 Years of Warfare-based History?; Arms Control; 5. INSURGENCY AND TERRORISM; 6. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE; Premises and Objectives; Put Our Internal House in Order; Put Pearl Harbor Firmly into the Past; Maintain Our Strategic Deterrent to Protect Our Homeland; Build a New Strategic Relationship with the USSR |
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Rearrange Our Forward Defense PostureDisentangle Ourselves from the Middle East Oil Morass; Build the Conventional Forces in a New Mold to a New Philosophy; And Start to Do What We Have to Do to Get There; PART THREE THE ARMED FORCES; 7. THE CURRENT ARMED FORCES; Long-term Trends in Warfare; The Current Condition of the Armed Forces; 8. THE FUTURE ARMED FORCES; The Strategic Forces: Triad to Dyad?; Strategic Defense: A Matter of Cost Tradeoffs; The General Purpose Forces: A New Basis for Planning; A Smaller, High-tech Army; A More Compact and Deadly Tactical Air Force |
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Long-range Fighting Power in the Navy and MarinesSpecial Operations and ""Low Intensity Conflict, ; Cutting the Defense Pie Differently; 9. TECHNOLOGY AND COST; PART FOUR RESOURCES; 10. THE COST OF THE NEW NATIONAL SECURITY POSTURE; Revitalizing the Industrial Economy; Essentials for the Social Structure; Cost to Achieve a Sound Infrastructure; The Cost of Newly Constituted Armed Forces; The New Economic Balance; EPILOGUE: CAN WE GET THERE FROM HERE?; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index |
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Print version record |
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National security -- United States.
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Armed Forces
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Military policy
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National security
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Reform
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Sicherheitspolitik
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United States -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
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United States -- Armed Forces.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139803
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429690402 |
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0429690401 |
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9780429710414 |
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0429710410 |
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