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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... munitions . So long as U.S. military planners focused on the threat posed by Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces , few of the above developments were noted in the annual threat assessments prepared for Congress by the Department of Defense ...
... munitions . So long as U.S. military planners focused on the threat posed by Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces , few of the above developments were noted in the annual threat assessments prepared for Congress by the Department of Defense ...
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... munitions.34 These developments , the Commission claimed , would pose significant new threats to American security and complicate future U.S. military operations in Third World areas : The [ expanding ] arsenals of the lesser powers ...
... munitions.34 These developments , the Commission claimed , would pose significant new threats to American security and complicate future U.S. military operations in Third World areas : The [ expanding ] arsenals of the lesser powers ...
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... munitions and delivery systems . “ Along with increases in their military capital stocks , " the report noted , " these developing countries will acquire a growing capacity to produce and export a wide range of weapons , featuring all ...
... munitions and delivery systems . “ Along with increases in their military capital stocks , " the report noted , " these developing countries will acquire a growing capacity to produce and export a wide range of weapons , featuring all ...
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