The Pentagon labyrinth
Subtitle: 10 short essays to help you through it : from 10 Pentagon insiders, retired military officers and specialists with over 400 years of defense experience
By: edited by Winslow T. Wheeler
Contributors: Center for Defense Information (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Center for Defense Information
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780615446240
Subjects: United States; United States. Department of Defense; Military policy; Armed Forces
Description: This handbook aims to help newcomers as well as seasoned observers learn how to grapple with the problems of national defense, using insights our authors have gleaned in the course of their more than 400 years of combined experience. Each year, people are hired to address defense issues in the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, in think tanks and throughout the media. Some of them will have experience in the armed forces; some have studied national security in universities, some have worked in the Pentagon or the defense industry. Many of them might consider a handbook for defense 'newbies' to be beneath them, but few of them will have had the depth of experience across all the disciplines represented by the authors of this book: decades in military service, intelligence, weapons design, Pentagon defense management and analysis, weapons testing, journalism, military history and congressional staff work.
Notes: "Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Why is this handbook necessary?  -- Frankling C. Spinney; title: Penetrating the Pentagon  -- George Wilson; title: Learning about defense  -- Bruce I. Gudmundsson /; title: Congressional oversight: willing and able or willing to enable?  -- Winslow T. Wheeler; title: Careerism  -- Col. G.I. Wilson; title: Confused alarms of struggle and flight: a primer for assessing defense strategy in the post-Iraq world  -- Col. Chet Richards; title: Follow the money  -- Andrew Cockburn; title: Decoding the defense budget  -- Winslow T. Wheeler; title: Evaluating weapons: sorting the good from the bad  -- Pierre M. Sprey; title: Developing, buying and fielding superior weapon systems  -- Thomas Christie; title: Suggested contacts, readings and web sites.