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SECDEF The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense / Charles A. Stevenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Charles A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States.
- United States.-Department of Defense.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 249 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The men who struggle with Washington's most demanding post.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- I BACKGROUND AND EVOLUTION OF THE OFFICE
- 1 The Nearly Impossible Job
- 2 The Cemetery for Dead Cats
- II POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES
- The Revolutionaries
- 3 McNamara: The Numbers of Power
- 4 Schlesinger: The Independence of Ideas
- 5 Weinberger: The Power of Tenacity
- The Firefighters
- 6 Laird: The Power of Politics
- 7 Aspin: The Politics of Failure
- 8 Cohen: The Politics of Defense
- The Team Players
- 9 Brown: The Technology of Power
- 10 Cheney: The Power of Decisiveness
- 11 Perry: The Power of Decency
- 12 The Rumsfeld Transformation
- III ROLES AND PERFORMANCES
- 13 Manager of the Pentagon
- 14 War Planner
- 15 Diplomat
- 16 NSC Adviser
- 17 Successes and Failures
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61234-279-5
- OCLC:
- 755577734
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