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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... military force is doomed to failure . But these are unwelcome lessons that , if properly learned , impose unwelcome responsibili- ties . The record of liberal , democratic , commercial nations , no matter how great their strength , in ...
... military policy there is no escape from it . Any future course of action rests on assumptions about how events are likely to develop and how political and military leaders will try to shape and react to them . Sim- ply to project the ...
... military dictatorship and then rearm so rapidly as to threaten the very survival of Britain was laughable . The idea that only five years would see the beginning of the Japanese drive that would result , even after a victorious war , in ...
... military weakness and , especially , its inability even to contemplate fighting major regional competitors in two different theaters paralyzed its for- eign policy throughout the 1930s . The British allowed Mussolini's aggression in ...
... military weak- ness and international indifference or timidity . No one can predict that a nationalistic autocrat will soon seize power in Russia and begin rearming at a pace that will threaten its neighbors and the se- curity of Europe ...
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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