Perspectives On Strategic Defense
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Author | : Steven W Guerrier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000301583 |
Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl
Author | : Steven W. Guerrier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |
ISBN | : 9780429301506 |
Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl
Author | : Daniel S. Papp |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1986-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Dmitriĭ Mikheev |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Keith B. Payne |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Strategic Defense Initiative |
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Surveys current U.S. nuclear policy, and discusses the feasibility of the Star Wars program, arms control, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the morality of the Initiative.
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Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Jonathan Samuel Lockwood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351474723 |
Soviet perceptions of U.S. strategy remained remarkably consistent from the post-Stalin period through the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. The consistency of the Soviet tendency to engage in the 'mirror-image' fallacy in their analyses of U.S. doctrine and strategic intentions has profound implications for the future relationship of the U.S. and the now-independent republics. This authoritative volume analyzes the Soviet/Russian perspectives of U.S. strategic evolution from the declaration of the 'massive retaliation' doctrine of 1954 through the Soviet collapse of 1991.The Soviets considered the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenal as the main factor giving them political leverage over U.S. foreign policy and predicted that a defense policy based on strategic defense would be the most effective deterrent from a Soviet perspective. Now the Russian military and political leadership places a high value on strategic nuclear forces in terms of political leverage and prestige.Building upon a wide variety of international sources, the Lockwoods offer a penetrating assessment of how the present Russian perspective will affect political relationships, not only with the U.S. and the West, but also among the independent republics. This factor will become ever more critical as they vie for decentralized versus unified control of what was the Soviet nuclear arsenal under the shadow of the collapsing economies. The authors also introduce a new theory concerning the future impact of ballistic missile defense on operational warfare in light of the U.S. experience in Operation Desert Storm. The Russian View of U.S. Strategy provides a comprehensive historical context and an up-to-date appraisal of an uncertain and potentially volatile development in U.S.-Russian relations. It will be of interest to historians, policymakers, and military analysts.
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Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Catherine McArdle Kelleher |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2015-09-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804796564 |
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile ground-based technologies like the Patriot PAC-3 system, and sea-based Aegis-equipped destroyer and cruisers. The volume is intended to stimulate renewed debates in strategic studies and public policy circles over the contribution of regional and national missile defense to global security. Written from a range of perspectives by practitioners and academics, the book provides a rich source for understanding the technologies, history, diplomacy, and strategic implications of the gradual evolution of American missile defense plans. Experts and non-experts alike—whether needing to examine the offense-defense tradeoffs anew, to engage with a policy update, or to better understand the debate as it relates to a country or region—will find this book invaluable. While it opens the door to the debates, however, it does not find or offer easy solutions—because they do not exist.
Author | : Douglas E. Streusand |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739188305 |
This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little credit for the end of the Cold War, with most of credit going to Mikhail Gorbachev; that Reagan’s management of the National Security Council staff was singularly inept; and that the United States is incapable of generating and implementing a grand strategy that employs all the instruments of national power and coordinates the work of all executive agencies. The Reagan years were hardly a time of interagency concord, but the National Security Council staff managed the successful implementation of its program nonetheless.