America's defense meltdown
Subtitle: Pentagon reform for President Obama and the new Congress
By: edited by Winslow T. Wheeler.
Contributors: Wheeler, Winslow T.; Center for Defense Information (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804769310
Subjects: National security -- United States; United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization; United States -- Armed Forces -- Operational readiness; United States -- Military policy
Notes: "A Center for Defense Information book."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and historic overview : the overburden of America's outdated defenses / John Sayen; title: Shattering illusions : a national security strategy for 2009-2017 / Chet Richards; title: Leading the human dimension out of a legacy of failure / G.I. Wilson and Donald Vandergriff; title: Maneuver forces : the Army and Marine Corps after Iraq / Douglas Macgregor and G.I. Wilson; title: A traveler's perspective on third and fourth generation war / William S. Lind; title: The Navy / William S. Lind; title: Reversing the decay of American air power / Robert Dilger and Pierre M. Sprey; title: Air mobility alternatives for a new administration / James P. Stevenson; title: The Army National Guard, the Army Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve / Bruce I. Gudmundsson; title: Long in coming, the acquisition train wreck is here / Thomas Christie; title: Understand, then contain America's out-of-control defense budget / Winslow T. Wheeler.