National security dilemmas
Subtitle: challenges & opportunities
By: Colin S. Gray ; foreword by Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (Ret.).
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781597972628; 9781597972635
Subjects: National security -- United States -- 21st century; Military doctrine -- United States; Military art and science -- United States; Strategy; United States -- Military policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of an era; title: Defining and achieving decisive victory; title: Maintaining effective deterrence; title: Transformation and strategic surprise; title: Recognizing and understanding revolutionary change in warfare: the sovereignty of context; title: Irregular enemies and the essence of strategy:; title: Can the American way of war adapt?; title: The implications of preemptive and preventive war doctrines: a reconsideration; title: The merit in ethical realism.