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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... clear not only to Churchill that by 1938 England had let slip by her best chance either to deter or to prepare for war . Thenceforth it would be Hitler who would call the tune , and for a time it looked very much as though England would ...
... clear and becomes more persuasive the more closely it is examined . Such a study reveals that for all the significant differences between them , the United States has been pursuing a path remarkably similar to the one taken by Great ...
... clear that such a ca- pacity is necessary . Today in America , as in Britain in the 1920s , air power en- thusiasts make extravagant and undemonstrated claims that air power and modern technology can close the gap . No historical ...
... clear . The understanding of British policy in the interwar years has been seriously distorted by the knowledge of what happened in 1939. We now can see in Ger- many even as early as 1935 the Germany that invaded Russia in 1941 and won ...
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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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