America can win
Subtitle: the case for military reform
By: Gary Hart with William S. Lind.
Contributors: Lind, William S.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Adler & Adler
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780917561108
Subjects: United States -- Military policy.; United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization.
Description: America Can Win is a powerful, nonpartisan analysis of what needs to be done to revitalize our armed forces, which have not won a major victory since the Inchon landing during the Korean War. Senator Gary Hart is co-founder of the Military Reform Caucus, a group of more than one hundred thirty senators and congressmen from both sides of the aisle whose central concern is not the size of our defense budget, but how effectively we use it. After more than four years of intensive military buildup, America Can Win takes a close look at our combat readiness and finds it woefully inadequate. Senator Hart believes the Pentagon comes up with the wrong answers because it asks the wrong questions about such vital matters as weapons, force structure, officer education, troop training, field tactics and military organization. This book calls for fundamental changes in all of these areas. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The military reform movement; title: Part one : Superstructure. Ground forces; title: The navy; title: Air forces; title: The defense budget; title: Part two : The reason why. The officer corps; title: The weapons development and procurement process; title: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense; title: The Congress; title: Part three : Changing the system. Bureaucracy; title: Crosscuts; title: Conclusion