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Defense strategy for the post-Saddam era / Michael E. O'Hanlon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Hanlon, Michael E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- World politics--21st century.
- World politics.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- United States. Armed Forces.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Offers pragmatic policy recommendations for strengthening the U.S. military's ability to respond to international crises, with engagement or deterrence, and protect American citizens while maintaining fiscal responsibility, by expanding ground forces yet containing spending, modernizing weaponry, implementing privatization and reform, and encouraging burden sharing with allies"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Setting the context : the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and their lessons
- The need to increase the size of U.S. ground forces
- The draft, the overseas base structure, and the allies
- Modernizing weaponry
- Beyond Iraq and North Korea.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-137) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610813162
- 9781280813160
- 1280813164
- 9780815797685
- 0815797680
- OCLC:
- 559809054
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