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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... future , it will bring attacks on the American homeland , not merely by terrorists , but as part of deliberately planned and carefully executed military strikes against critical targets in the United States of America . The happy ...
... future . Most policy makers as- sert or assume that America faces no significant threat today , and that it is not likely to take the form of a “ peer competitor , " an enemy like the old Soviet Union that could challenge the United ...
... future . In the un- specified long term , new dangers may require more attention to America's de- fenses , but there will be ample time for that . Deeper thinkers point out that no political development serious enough to revolutionize ...
... future policy from this last and most successful course rather than relapsing into the previous comfortable irresponsibility , the future will be grim . Predicting the future is a difficult and uncertain business , but for those who ...
... future than we would like to think . In the years following the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 , Britain slashed its armed forces , allowed its military modernization programs to stagnate , and pinned its hopes for peace on the economic ...
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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