The last warrior
Subtitle: Andrew Marshall and the shaping of modern American defense strategy
By: Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts ; foreword by Robert M. Gates
Contributors: Watts, Barry
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780465030002
Subjects: Military planning; Cold War; Officials and employees; Military policy; Strategy; United States; United States. Department of Defense. Director of Net Assessment; United States. Department of Defense; Biography; Rand Corporation; Foreign relations; History
Other titles: Andrew Marshall and the shaping of modern American defense strategy
Description: Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the RAND Corporation during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall helped formulate bedrock concepts of US nuclear strategy that endure to this day; later, at the Pentagon, he pioneered the development of "net assessment"--a new analytic framework for understanding the long-term military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Cold War, Marshall successfully used net assessment to anticipate emerging disruptive shifts in military affairs, including the revolution in precision warfare and the rise of China as a major strategic rival of the United States. In The Last Warrior, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts--both former members of Marshall's staff--trace Marshall's intellectual development from his upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to his decades in Washington as an influential behind-the-scenes advisor on American defense strategy. The result is a unique insider's perspective on the changes in US strategy from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.