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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... 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 century . I. Kagan ...
... foreign policy to deter Ger- man revanchisme and for military preparedness to support that policy . His ad- vice , and those of others similarly minded , was ignored consistently by a British government preoccupied with domestic ...
... foreign policy that one can find today that America is in the most secure of all possible positions . Since the ... foreign and defense policies and address the dangers that we see ahead . In our view the peace that concluded World War I ...
... foreign policy not backed by sufficient military force is doomed to failure . But these are unwelcome lessons that ... policy makers who do not re- flect on the danger the deterioration of that climate would pose . Like any insurance ...
... policy from this last and most successful course rather than relapsing into the previous comfortable ... foreign policy as a way of preventing war is the refusal to admit that we could face a serious threat in a very short time . A corol ...
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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