Building a Defense that Works for the Post-Cold War World
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: UNITED STATES. CONGRESS. HOUSE. COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Betty G. Lall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 042972280X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book shows how to make the smoothest possible transition to civilian use of newly released military resources, especially the physical and human resources that have been devoted to defense production and thereby help people make the required economic adjustment.
Author: Ashton B. Carter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780815791003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter, two of the world's foremost defense authorities, draw on their experience as leaders of the U.S. Defense Department to propose a new American security strategy for the twenty-first century. After a century in which aggression had to be defeated in two world wars and then deterred through a prolonged cold war, the authors argue for a strategy centered on prevention. Now that the cold war is over, it is necessary to rethink the risks to U.S. security. The A list--threats to U.S. survival--is empty today. The B list--the two major regional contingencies in the Persian Gulf and on the Korean peninsula that dominate Pentagon planning and budgeting--pose imminent threats to U.S. interests but not to survival. And the C list--such headline-grabbing places as Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti--includes important contingencies that indirectly affect U.S. security but do not directly threaten U.S. interests. Thus the United States is enjoying a period of unprecedented peace and influence; but foreign policy and defense leaders cannot afford to be complacent. The authors' preventive defense strategy concentrates on the dangers that, if mismanaged, have the potential to grow into true A-list threats to U.S. survival in the next century. These include Weimar Russia: failure to establish a self-respecting place for the new Russia in the post-cold war world, allowing it to descend into chaos, isolation, and aggression as Germany did after World War I; Loose Nukes: failure to reduce and secure the deadly legacy of the cold war--nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union; A Rising China Turned Hostile: failure to shape China's rise to Asian superpower status so that it emerges as a partner rather than an adversary; Proliferation: spread of weapons of mass destruction; and Catastrophic Terrorism: increase in the scope and intensity of transnational terrorism.They also argue for
Author: Robert M. Gates
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1524731889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansiveness and its limitations. He makes clear that the successful exercise of power is not limited to the ability to coerce or demand submission, but must also encompass diplomacy, strategic communications, development assistance, intelligence, technology, and ideology. With forthright judgments of the performance of past presidents and their senior-most advisers, insightful firsthand knowledge, and compelling insider stories, Gates’s candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations argues that U.S. national security in the future will require abiding by the lessons of the past, reimagining our approach, and revitalizing nonmilitary instruments of power essential to success and security.
Author: Paul K. Davis
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780833014429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study describes a new approach to defense planning that would better integrate strategic, programmatic, and operations planning. The study recommends new methods of analysis that are well suited to planning under uncertainty.
Author: Peter L. Hays
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780801854736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →defense policies, reviewing excerpts from key defense policy statements and assessing the likely challenges for future policy makers.--Brent Scowcroft "International Affairs"
Author: Paul K. Davis
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780833014429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study describes a new approach to defense planning that would better integrate strategic, programmatic, and operations planning. The study recommends new methods of analysis that are well suited to planning under uncertainty.