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Defense planning for the late 1990s : beyond the Desert Storm framework

Title: Defense planning for the late 1990s : beyond the Desert Storm framework / Michael O'Hanlon.
Author: O'Hanlon, Michael E.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1995.

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Description

xv, 150 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

How does the United States fashion a defense policy for a world in which it has strong and reliable allies, no major enemies, and the best military in history - and yet at the same time has a host of worries about its future security and a strong sense that the world is anything but safe?
At a time when all of government is being asked to become more efficient, Michael O'Hanlon shows how the United States could prudently cut defense spending by as much as 10 percent without risking its ability to respond to simultaneous regional crises or maintain global commitments.
O'Hanlon summarizes the military doctrine and budgetary dimensions of the Clinton administration's "bottom-up review" plan for U.S. defense forces. He argues that U.S. strategists have not yet adjusted defense planning to the post-Soviet world and are focusing excessively, if somewhat understandably, on the vestiges of the cold war in places such as the Korean peninsula.
He calls for Western support of more innovative approaches to UN peace operations and a reorientation of the NATO alliance away from concern with Russia and toward other combat scenarios.

Series Statement

Studies in defense policy

Uniform Title

Studies in defense policy.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. The Current U.S. Defense Debate. The Need for a Broader Debate. The Clinton Administration's Strategy and Force Structure. Are There Underfunding or Readiness Crises? -- 2. An Alternative Defense Posture and Budget. A Strategy for Transition. Costs and Savings of the Alternative Defense Posture -- 3. The Military Challenge of Regional War. The Nature of Regional Threats. Sizing U.S. Combat Capabilities. Logistics and Pre-positioning. Understanding Regional Military Campaigns. Planning for the Unexpected -- 4. Peace Operations, Forward Presence, and Crisis Response. U.S. Peacetime Presence. Peace Operations and the U.S. Military. Peace Operations and Multilateral Force Planning Issues -- 5. Nuclear Weapons. An Alternative Nuclear Doctrine. An Alternative Nuclear Force -- 6. Security Structures and Defense Postures for the Twenty-First Century. The NATO Alliance. U.S. Alliances in East Asia. Arms Export Policies. Appendix A: Lanchester and Dupuy Equations --
Appendix B: Conventional Bombers in Regional Warfare.

ISBN

0815764499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95022189

OCLC

ocm32626377

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries