Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign PolicyFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 M04 30 - 292 pages In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially-became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold War levels of military sping. |
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