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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... maintain world stability will fail . As a vital first step Americans must stop thinking and acting as though there can never be another war . We must understand that the world and the United States , as they have al- ways been up to now ...
... maintain it . All of these arguments conclude that there is no serious threat to America now , and that none is likely to arise in the near future . In the un- specified long term , new dangers may require more attention to America's de ...
... Maintaining a secure international climate through adequate military power seems an unnecessary luxury to people and policy makers who do not re- flect on the danger the deterioration of that climate would pose . Like any insurance ...
... maintained a formidable mili- tary power in peacetime for almost half a century . The cost in effort , wealth , and ... maintain large armed forces and an active foreign policy as a way of preventing war is the refusal to admit that we ...
... maintain and use adequate armed forces large and strong enough to deter a war by being obviously capable of winning it . It demonstrates how , even with the best inten- tions after understanding its errors , it may be impossible to ...
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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