Oil and Arab regional development (Praeger special studies in international economics and development)
by Kamal S. Sayegh
Category: Business & Economics

The book traces the history of various attempts to impose military reform on the American armed forces, from actions of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution up through the present day. Particular focus is placed on the effort of a small group in Congress and the Pentagon in the 1980s (who coined the term "military reform" in the modern context). The authors examine the reforms these actors advocated, variously successful and unsuccessful, to fundamentally alter how the Department of Defense designs and buys hardware and how our armed forces fight. Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom (and the subsequent insurgency in Iraq) are used to demonstrate what has been reformed in U.S. armed forces and the Department of Defense, and what has not.