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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... major threat to England and to the peace of the world . In them he called for a foreign policy to deter Ger- man revanchisme and for military preparedness to support that policy . His ad- vice , and those of others similarly minded ...
... Major war need not be just around the corner , as it was then . If the United States assumes the true burdens of world leadership on which peace depends and that it alone has the resources to bear , major war may be put off for longer ...
... major regional adversary in any conventional sense are unneces- sary or , at any event , 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 ...
... major regional competitors in two different theaters paralyzed its for- eign policy throughout the 1930s . The British allowed Mussolini's aggression in Ethiopia in 1935 to go unopposed for fear of weakening Britain's position in East ...
... major regional competitors " -neither was a peer competitor to Britain around the world . The collapse of Britain's position in the world resulted in considerable part from its failure to maintain a true " two major regional com ...
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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