While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace TodayMacmillan, 2000 - 483 pages In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World War II. |
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... England Slept . In that year , German armies destroyed those of France and England , conquered France , and subjected England to the most terrible and destructive bombing campaign the world had ever seen . Why En- gland Slept aimed to ...
... England faced in 1938. Few today would agree that America's current sit- uation is in any way dire . On the contrary , it is almost an article of faith in the few public discussions on foreign policy that one can find today that America ...
... England had ever waged and the heaviest expenditure she had ever borne . This phase has often recurred in our history . In fact it has been an invariable rule that England , so steadfast in war , so indomitable in peril , should at the ...
... England , and would use it to destroy the French army , the strongest ground force in the world in 1926 , within six weeks . There seemed to be no credible threat in 1926 , and the English felt free to focus their time , energy , and re ...
... England could have failed to see the threat . It seems inconceivable that we could be as blind as they were , for we see the mistakes of men like Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain as part of the failed policy of appeasement , and ...
Contents
The Brave New World | 13 |
Britains Defense Dilemma | 44 |
The First Challenge to Peace | 67 |
The Paper Lion Roars | 78 |
Retreat from Responsibility | 98 |
The Search for Security | 118 |
The Unraveling of Versailles | 140 |
The Locarno Treaty | 160 |
The New World Order | 237 |
The Peace Dividend | 267 |
Increased Commitments Reduced Forces | 300 |
Kicking the Can Down the Road | 321 |
Proliferation and Blackmail | 341 |
Another Versailles | 367 |
A Legacy of Half Measures | 400 |
Conclusion | 424 |
The Spirit of Locarno | 176 |
The Bill Comes Due | 194 |
The Price of SelfDeception | 217 |
The United States After the Cold War | 235 |
Notes | 437 |
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