Title: While America sleeps
Subtitle: self-delusion, military weakness, and the threat to peace today
First published: 2000
Description: "In While America Sleeps, historians Donald and Frederick W. Kagan retrace Britain's international and defense policies during the years after World War I leading up to World War II, showing in persuasive detail how self-delusion and an unwillingness to face the inescapable responsibilities on which their security and the peace of the world depended cost the British dearly.

The Kagans then turn their attention to America and argue that our nation finds itself in a position similar to that of Britain in the 1920s. For all its emergency interventions, the United States has not yet accepted its unique responsibility to take the lead in preserving the peace."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Forecasting, National security, Military History, Military policy, Foreign relations, Diplomatic relations, Außenpolitik, Sicherheitspolitik, Militärpolitik, Great britain, military policy, Great britain, history, 20th century, Great britain, foreign relations, 20th century, Cold war, United states, military policy, National security, united states, National security, europe
Places: United States, Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century, 1989-
LC classification: E840 .K3 2000