Defense or delusion?
Subtitle: America's military in the 1980s
By: by Thomas H. Etzold.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780060380113
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: United States -- Military policy; United States -- Armed Forces
Description: This mildly critical overview of U.S. military capabilities and future defense needs is presented here with competence and balance. It is probably useful for the general audience for which it is apparently intended. Those more steeped in defense issues will find little that is new in detail or analysis. - Robert E. Osgood, foreignaffairs.com
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem : military malaise; title: The environment : limits on American power; title: The people : loving the military and leaving it; title: The weapons : technological dreams, strategic visions, organizational rituals; title: The nuclear issues : more bang, more bucks; title: The conventional issues : politics and preparedness; title: The prescription : measured military renewal