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America the vulnerable : our military problems and how to fix them / edited by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman.
LIBRA UA23 .A42 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- United States--Military relations.
- Military relations.
- United States--Armed Forces.
- Armed Forces.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- United States--Defenses.
- Defenses.
- Terrorism--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Ballistic missile defenses--United States.
- Ballistic missile defenses.
- Civil-military relations--United States.
- Civil-military relations.
- Asymmetric warfare.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 247 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Our military problems and how to fix them
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA. : Foreign Policy Research Institute, [2002]
- Contents:
- Preface / John H. Ball
- America the vulnerable / John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman
- Roles and missions / Donald Kagan
- Superpowers don't do windows / John Hillen
- The U.S. presumption of quick, costless wars / Andrew P.N. Erdmann
- Operations, procurement, and industrial base / Harry G. Summers Jr.
- Civil-military relations / Eliot A. Cohen
- The U.S. military must find its voice / Sam C. Sarkesian
- An uninformed debate on military culture / Don M. Snider
- Does military culture matter? / Williamson Murray
- Must U.S. military culture reform? / John Hillen
- The case for national missile defense / Keith B. Payne
- Rethinking bio-chemical dangers / Henry Sokolski
- Bad medicine for biological terror / Andrew J. Bacevich
- Asymmetrical adversaries / Winn Schwartau
- The risks of a networked military / Richard J. Harknett and the JCISS Study Group.
- Notes:
- "This volume brings together in one place nine essays commissioned for the three major conferences [of a Defense Task Force, held in 1996, 1998, 1999] plus five related essays from the pages of Orbis, FPRI's quarterly journal of world affairs, and an introductory essay that lays out plainly five threats to American security and what can be done about them"--Pref. (vii).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- OCLC:
- 48948492
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