Title: Defense policy in the Reagan administration /
Authors: Snyder, William P. 1928-; Brown, James, 1934 May 1-
Publisher: National Defense University Press : Sold by the U.S. G.P.O.,
Year: 1988
Subjects: United States Military policy Congresses.; United States Politics and government Congresses.; United States Politics and government Congresses.
Contents: Part I. Regional and global issues. The Reagan Administration and arms control : redefining the agenda / Schuyler Foerster -- The U.S. and Asia : the success of continuity? / Paul H.B. Godwin -- American-Soviet relations : the rhetoric and realism / Peter Zwick -- Terrorism : political challenge and military response / John F. Guilmartin -- The burden of global defense : security assistance policies of the Reagan Administration / Roy A. Werner -- Part II. Defense program requirements. Defense budgets and spending control : the Reagan era and beyond / Dennis S. Ippolito -- Manpower and personnel policy in the Reagan years / David R. Segal and Nathan L. Hibler -- Defense policy and programs in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings era / Dov S. Zakheim -- Part III. U.S. Forces and weapons. The decisive role of landpower in U.S. national security / William O. Staudenmaier -- The U.S. Navy under the Reagan Administration and global forward strategy / John Allen Williams -- The U.S. Air Force : force structure, changes and implications / Thomas A. Fabyanic -- Population defense through SDI : an impossible dream / Jerome Slater and David Goldfischer -- Part IV. Acquisition and readiness. Building reform in weapons acquisition / Jacques S. Gansler -- Did readiness get its fair share of the defense buildup in the first Reagan Administration? / Lawrence J. Korb.