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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... forces America will have in a decade or two ? By the time a serious threat could arise , the United States will have ... armed forces with the FBI and local police departments . These scenarios lead some to the conclusion that the ...
... armed forces resulted from a feeling that the end of war had brought the return of " normal " peacetime conditions when large armed forces are not needed . In each war the unprepared nation paid a much higher price for victory than ...
... armed forces of the resources they needed and , thereby , taking from its diplomacy the tools without which no foreign policy can be effective . The British believed then , as we do now , that no storm was on the horizon and none could ...
... armed forces by more than one - third across the board . Its leaders acclaim the advantages new technologies will bring to its forces to offset those reductions , but not one new major weapons system has been put into service since 1991 ...
... armed forces large and strong enough to deter a war by being obviously capable of winning it . It demonstrates how , even with the best inten- tions after understanding its errors , it may be impossible to rearm fast enough even to win ...
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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