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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... major weapons , fed U.S. troops at home and abroad , and managed the paperwork of the world's largest bu- reaucracy . The entire apparatus - scientific , technical , educational , and industrial — was dependent on a substantial Soviet ...
... major weapons , fed U.S. troops at home and abroad , and managed the paperwork of the world's largest bu- reaucracy . The entire apparatus - scientific , technical , educational , and industrial — was dependent on a substantial Soviet ...
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... major debate in the United States over the tradeoffs between a costly , far - flung military establishment and a deteriorating infrastructure at home.10 Some pundits sought to ridicule the notion of a United States in decline , but many ...
... major debate in the United States over the tradeoffs between a costly , far - flung military establishment and a deteriorating infrastructure at home.10 Some pundits sought to ridicule the notion of a United States in decline , but many ...
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... major problem : the absence of clearly identifiable enemies of a stature that would justify the retention of a large military es- tablishment . The Soviet Union was in terminal decay , and none of its constituent parts appeared destined ...
... major problem : the absence of clearly identifiable enemies of a stature that would justify the retention of a large military es- tablishment . The Soviet Union was in terminal decay , and none of its constituent parts appeared destined ...
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... major adversaries . But what countries could be selected to perform this role ? Virtually the entire membership of the " Second World " —the original Soviet bloc - was seeking Western aid and advice and , in some cases , in- clusion in ...
... major adversaries . But what countries could be selected to perform this role ? Virtually the entire membership of the " Second World " —the original Soviet bloc - was seeking Western aid and advice and , in some cases , in- clusion in ...
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... major military threats to the United States . If U.S. strategists were to identify any Third World countries as major enemies of the United States , they would have to establish a new basis — unrelated to Soviet power - on which to ...
... major military threats to the United States . If U.S. strategists were to identify any Third World countries as major enemies of the United States , they would have to establish a new basis — unrelated to Soviet power - on which to ...
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