Thinking About America's Defense
Subtitle: An Analytical Memoir
By: Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie.
Contributors: Ochmanek, David A.; Spirtas, Michael.; Pirnie, Bruce, 1940-
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780833044525
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force -- Officers -- Biography; Military planning -- United States; Generals -- United States -- Biography; Strategic forces -- United States; National security -- United States; United States -- Defenses -- Decision making; United States -- Military policy
Genres: Biography.
Description: Over his 33 years in the Air Force and more than 20 years at RAND, Lt GenGlenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defensepolicy. In this volume, he offers not so much a memoir in the normal senseas a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which he waspersonally engaged during his long career. In the process, he describes therelated analytical frameworks and illustrates the bureaucratic intricacies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.