The Myths of National Security
Author | : Arthur M. Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1975-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780807004975 |
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Author | : Arthur M. Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1975-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780807004975 |
Author | : Hans-Hermann Hoppe |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781478344681 |
LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "national defense" as provided by government is a myth not unlike the myth of socialism itself. Defense services are more viably privatized and replaced by the market provision of security. From the introduction: "Even aside from day-to-day security risks, the reality of terrorism and its resulting mayhem has demonstrated the inability of government to provide adequate security against attacks on person and property. The lesson of September 11 is indisputable: government had not only failed to act as a guardian of security and protection but had actually been the primary agent in creating insecurity and exposure to risk, and, moreover, did not achieve secure justice once the crime had been committed. "However, this was not the lesson that was drawn from the affair. Instead, the political elite successfully exploited public fears to vastly increase government spending, central credit inflation, bureaucratic management, citizen surveillance, regulation of transportation, and generally wage an all out attack on liberty and property. "Meanwhile, US foreign policy pursued in the aftermath became more aggressively interventionist, violent, and threatening (the US refused even to rule out the employment of nuclear weapons against enemy regimes) than it had been before, thereby increasing the number of recruits into the ranks of people who are willing to use extreme violence as a means of retribution. "In the same way that government intervention in times of peace can generate perverse consequences in markets that do not tend toward clearing, in times of war, military intervention can thus have the effect of harming the prospects for peace and security and bringing about a permanent state of violence and political control. Truly, the political affairs of our time cry out for a complete rethinking of the issues of defense and security and the respective roles of government, the market, and society in providing them."
Author | : Arthur M. Cox |
Publisher | : Boston : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Executive privilege (Government information) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcus Ranum |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-11-24 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0764555790 |
"As I write this, I'm sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up quite an appetite getting here two hours early and shuffling in the block-long lines until I got to the security checkpoint where I could take off my shoes, remove my belt, and put my carry-on luggage through the screening system . "What's going on? It's homeland security. Welcome to the new age of knee-jerk security at any price. Well, I've paid, and you've paid, and we'll all keep paying-but is it going to help? Have we embarked on a massive multibillion-dollar boondoggle that's going to do nothing more than make us feel more secure? Are we paying nosebleed prices for "feel-good" measures? . "This book was painful to write. By nature, I am a problem solver. Professionally I have made my career out of solving complex problems efficiently by trying to find the right place to push hard and make a difference. Researching the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, INS, the PATRIOT Act, and so forth, one falls into a rabbit's hole of interdependent lameness and dysfunction. I came face to face with the realization that there are gigantic bureaucracies that exist primarily for the sole purpose of prolonging their existence, that the very structure of bureaucracy rewards inefficiency and encourages territorialism and turf warfare."
Author | : Hans-Hermann Hoppe |
Publisher | : Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : National security |
ISBN | : 9780945466376 |
Author | : Jack Snyder |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801468590 |
Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.He tests three competing theories—realism, misperception, and domestic coalition politics—against five detailed case studies: early twentieth-century Germany, Japan in the interwar period, Great Britain in the Victorian era, the Soviet Union after World War II, and the United States during the Cold War. The resulting insights run counter to much that has been written about these apparently familiar instances of empire building.
Author | : National Defense University (U S ) |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
Author | : Kurt Campbell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 046500380X |
Our ideas about national security have changed radically over the last five years. It has become a political tool, a "wedge issue," a symbol of pride and fear. It is also the one issue above all others that can make or break an election. And this is why the Democratic Party has been steadily losing power since 2001. In Hard Power, Michael O'Hanlon, an expert on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, and Kurt Campbell, an authority on international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explain how the Democrats lost credibility on issues of security and foreign policy, how they can get it back -- and why they must. They recall the successful Democratic military legacy of past decades, as well as recent Democratic innovations -- like the Homeland Security Office and the idea of nation-building -- that have been successfully co-opted by the Republican administration. And, most importantly, they develop a broad national security vision for America, including specific defense policies and a strategy to win the war on terror.
Author | : Gérard Bouchard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136221107 |
Myths are a major, universal sociological mechanism which is still rather poorly understood Demonstrates the relevance and the potential of myths as a research area Provides a timely shift in the usual focus of national studies, which typically centers on ethnicity, immigration, integration, citizenship, cultural diversity and nationalism Demonstrates the nature and the functioning of myths in contemporary societies, as a nexus of meanings that feed identities, memory and utopias Contributions from international authors
Author | : Dan O'Meara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : International relations in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9781626377073 |
While analysts may agree that Hollywood movies have always both mirrored and helped to shape the tenor of their times, the question remains: Just how do they do it? And how do we identify the underlying political/ideological content of a film? Movies, Myth, and the National Security State answers these questions, exploring how Hollywood movies have served to propagate, or to debate, or sometimes to challenge the evolving US national security state since 1945. Drawing on more than a thousand films-and focusing in detail on 48 films that address key issues confronting the US and its sense of se.