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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... less adequate in the future , if the current insufficient and confused di- rection of our policies continues . Unless we change them soon our efforts to deter aggression and to maintain world stability will fail . As a vital first step ...
... less important . Still others see in the advent of the " information age ” a complete change in the nature of war as well as of society . Wars in the future will no longer be con- cerned with territory or natural resources , but with the.
... Less than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union , it is well to recall that in 1926 , only eight years after the collapse of the German Empire , the in- ternational scene seemed as tranquil and promising to Britain as it does ...
... less foolish to be certain that such things will not happen , as the study of Britain in the two decades between the wars makes clear . The understanding of British policy in the interwar years has been seriously distorted by the ...
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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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