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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... hope is to provide warning early enough to bring about a necessary change of course , even in a democratic state concerned , as democratic states usually are , with domestic preoccupations . Major war need not be just around the corner ...
... hope to compete with the United States , but only from " non- state actors . " International terrorist organizations will gain possession of the new technology and will exploit the increasing vulnerability of technologically advanced ...
... hope for no similar genie to emerge from a bottle , for none exists . There is no nation to come to its rescue if its leaders choose to endanger its security and the peace of the world by pursuing a policy of military weak- ness and ...
... hope they will understand the high price of failing to preserve the peace through an actively engaged foreign policy backed by dominant military force , understand that the cost of deterring war is infinitesimal compared to the cost of ...
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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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