Shaping American Military Capabilities After the Cold War
| Author | : Richard Arlynn Lacquement |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0275977641 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780275977641 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (641 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Shaping American Military Capabilities After the Cold War by : Richard Arlynn Lacquement
Download or read book Shaping American Military Capabilities After the Cold War written by Richard Arlynn Lacquement and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies. Over a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, American forces are a smaller, but similar version of their Cold War predecessors. The author argues that the bureaucratic inertia of comfortable military elites has dominated the defense policy debate and preserved the status quo.
