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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... United States - Foreign relations - 1989- 2. United States - Military Policy . 3. National security - United States - Forecasting . 4. Great Britain- Foreign relations - 20th century . 5. Great Britain - History , Military - 20th ...
... United States was drawn willy - nilly into yet another war it had failed to deter and for which it was woe- fully unprepared . The book was reprinted in 1961 when its young author , John F. Kennedy , was President of the United States ...
... United States desires noth- ing but peace and stability in the world , it is most difficult to imagine that any other state might threaten us . Since our armed forces are so powerful , it is hard to believe that any enemy could defeat ...
... United States as the source of a modernization that threatens them , as the propagator of values they find evil and abhorrent , as their principal enemy . Over time the technologies of which the United States and its allies are the ...
... United States will have developed the weapons to defeat it . On that assumption the National Defense Panel argued that the United States should take advantage of the current " strategic pause , " cutting forces now to fund modernization ...
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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