Thinking about America's defense [electronic resource] : an analytical memoir / Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie.
"Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His 33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one of the leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the...
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Santa Monica, Calif. :
Rand,
2008.
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| Series: | Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Foreword
- Creating Strategic Analysis: Thomas C. Schelling; Foreword
- Putting Analysis to Work: Harold Brown; Introduction: David Ochmanek, Bruce Pirnie, and Michael Spirtas; Chapter One
- The Single Integrated Operational Plan; Chapter Two
- Nuclear Weapons: Strategy and Arms Control; Chapter Three
- Analysis, Force Planning, and the Paradigm forModernizing; Chapter Four
- Modernizing Nuclear Forces; Chapter Five
- Modernizing Conventional Forces; Chapter Six
- Analytical Tools.