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Thinking about America's defense : an analytical memoir / Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, Glenn A., 1915-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force--Officers--Biography.
- United States.
- Military planning--United States.
- Military planning.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Strategic forces--United States.
- Strategic forces.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- United States--Defenses--Decision making.
- United States--Military policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His 33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one of the leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the normal sense but rather a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which Glenn was personally engaged over the course of his career. These issues included creating the single integrated operational plan (SIOP),leading DoD's official assessment of strategic defenses in the 1960s,developing and analyze
- Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Foreword - Creating Strategic Analysis: Thomas C. Schelling; Foreword - Putting Analysis to Work: Harold Brown; Introduction: David Ochmanek, Bruce Pirnie, and Michael Spirtas; Chapter One - The Single Integrated Operational Plan; Chapter Two - Nuclear Weapons: Strategy and Arms Control; Chapter Three - Analysis, Force Planning, and the Paradigm for Modernizing; Chapter Four - Modernizing Nuclear Forces; Chapter Five - Modernizing Conventional Forces; Chapter Six - Analytical Tools; Chapter Seven - Summing Up: Kent's Maxims; Chronology; Awards; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-45105-7
- 9786612451058
- 0-8330-4862-7
- OCLC:
- 276956206
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