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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Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today Donald Kagan, Frederick W. Kagan. For Myrna and Kim WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS . Copyright © 2000 by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan . All rights reserved . Printed in the ...
Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today Donald Kagan, Frederick W. Kagan. Introduction A merica is in danger . Unless its leaders change their national security policy , the peace and safety its power and ...
... threat today , and that it is not likely to take the form of a “ peer competitor , " an enemy like the old Soviet Union that could challenge the United States globally and threaten America's very survival . The worst prospect they see ...
... 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- fenses , but there will be ample time for that . Deeper thinkers ...
... threat posed by intercontinental missiles , no nation dependent upon international peace and free trade for its well - being can avoid playing an important role in the international arena . Historical experi- ence reveals that when the ...
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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