Clinton and Post-Cold War Defense
The experts raise many provocative questions and varying conclusions about the problems and prospects for the United States and for the post-Cold War era. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and teachers should find that this hard-hitting analysis stimulates discussion, and military experts and policymakers should find this of real interest also. |
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When these two phases of transition are combined and their results projected five to ten years into the future , the United States may be lacking in certain essential military capabilities for some plausible threats .
When these two phases of transition are combined and their results projected five to ten years into the future , the United States may be lacking in certain essential military capabilities for some plausible threats .
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Second , Aspin per- mitted the military to define regional threats and to assess their own capabilities as well as those of potential opponents . The result was worst- case estimation based on improbable scenario outcomes .
Second , Aspin per- mitted the military to define regional threats and to assess their own capabilities as well as those of potential opponents . The result was worst- case estimation based on improbable scenario outcomes .
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... a serious threat deficit . A Europe no longer as dependent on Washington for its security as hitherto might assert a European security identity through instruments such as the European Union ( EU , formerly the European Community ...
... a serious threat deficit . A Europe no longer as dependent on Washington for its security as hitherto might assert a European security identity through instruments such as the European Union ( EU , formerly the European Community ...
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A European defense identity is not imminent but it is inherent , and perhaps inevitable , in a world of threat perception centered on crisis management and conflict avoidance instead of deterrence . Donald M. Snow examines the pattern ...
A European defense identity is not imminent but it is inherent , and perhaps inevitable , in a world of threat perception centered on crisis management and conflict avoidance instead of deterrence . Donald M. Snow examines the pattern ...
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Reconstitution — the capability to create additional new forces to hedge against any renewed threats . During the fall of 1989 and on into 1990 the development of the force structure to support the strategy was more difficult ...
Reconstitution — the capability to create additional new forces to hedge against any renewed threats . During the fall of 1989 and on into 1990 the development of the force structure to support the strategy was more difficult ...
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Contents
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Defense Budgets and the Clinton Defense Program | 15 |
Defense Planning for the PostCold War Era Bush Clinton and Beyond | 29 |
Clinton Defense Policy and Nuclear Weapons | 49 |
Working with Allies Clinton Defense Policy and the Management of Multilateralism | 71 |
Peacekeeping Peace Enforcement and Clinton Defense Policy | 87 |
Special Operations LowIntensity Conflict Unconventional Conflicts and the Clinton Defense Strategy | 103 |
Clinton Defense PolicyMaking Players Process and Policiesr | 123 |
CivilMilitary Relations After the Cold War Integrating the Armed Forces and American Society | 139 |
Clinton and US Peacekeeping | 153 |
Conclusions | 169 |
Selected Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 187 |
About the Contributors | 194 |
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Page 144 - As to the fatal, but necessary operations of war, when we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen ; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour, when the establishment of American liberty on the most firm and solid foundations, shall enable us to return to our private stations, in the bosom of a free, peaceful, and happy country.
Page 108 - Our task today is to shape our defense capabilities to these changing strategic circumstances. In a world less driven by an immediate threat to Europe and the danger of global war — in a world where the size of our forces will increasingly be shaped by the needs of regional contingencies and peacetime presence — we know that our forces can be smaller.
Page 106 - Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future, and the world will be shaped in large measure by the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations. These include Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African civilization. The most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating these civilizations from one another.
Page 151 - He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our Legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
Page 64 - Whenever one side modernizes elements of its strategic forces, the other side will find reason to worry. Military staffs on each side will continue to perform calculations to estimate whether the Other Side (who used to be the Enemy) could somehow launch a first strike without having to fear massive and certain retaliation.
Page 109 - Simply put, international and domestic realities have resulted in the paradox of declining military resources and increasing military missions, a paradox that is stressing our armed forces. The stress is significant. It requires fundamental changes in the way the nation conducts its defense affairs...
Page 61 - To respond to the president, we have created the Defense Counterproliferation Initiative. With this initiative, we are making the essential change demanded by this increased threat. We are adding the task of protection to the task of prevention. In past administrations, the emphasis was on prevention. The policy of nonproliferation combined global diplomacy and regional security efforts with the denial of material and know-how to would-be proliferators. Prevention remains our pre-eminent goal. In...
Page 66 - Countering the Threat of the Well-Armed Tyrant: A Modest Proposal for Small Nuclear Weapons," Strategic Review, Fall 1991, pp.
Page 68 - ... the use of the full range of political, economic and military tools to prevent proliferation, reverse it diplomatically or protect our interests against an opponent armed with weapons of mass destruction or missiles, should that prove necessary. Nonproliferation tools include: intelligence analysis, global nonproliferation norms and agreements, diplomacy, export controls, security assurances, defenses, and the application of military force.
Page 68 - Council defined nonproliferation as 'the use of the full range of political, economic and military tools to prevent proliferation, reverse it diplomatically or protect our interests against an opponent armed with weapons of mass destruction or missiles, should that prove necessary'.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Clinton and Post-Cold War Defense |
| Editor | Stephen J. Cimbala |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0275950069, 9780275950064 |
| Length | 197 pages |
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