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Hitting first : preventive force in U.S. security strategy

Title
Hitting first : preventive force in U.S. security strategy / edited by William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Additional Authors
  • Keller, William W. (William Walton), 1950-
  • Mitchell, Gordon R., 1967-
Description
viii, 360 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The security continuum
Uniform Title
Security continuum.
Subject
  • Preemptive attack (Military science)
  • Military planning > United States
  • National security > United States
  • United States > Military policy
  • United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-345) and index.
Contents
1. Preemption, prevention, prevarication / William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell -- 2. Preventive attacks against nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs : the track record / Dan Reiter -- 3. The curious case of Kofi Annan, George W. Bush, and the "preemptive" military force doctrine / Simon Reich -- 4. By "any measures" necessary : NSC-68 and Cold War roots of the 2002 national security strategy / Gordon R. Mitchell and Robert P. Newman -- 5. Strategic doctrine, public debate, and the terror war / G. Thomas Goodnight -- 6. Deliberate before striking first? / Rodger A. Payne -- 7. On justifying the first blow / Tom Rockmore -- 8. Intelligence in preventive military strategy / Greg Thielmann -- 9. Military capabilities in preventive military strategy / Peter Dombrowski -- 10. A sheep in wolf's clothing? : France's struggle with preventive force / Jacques E. C. Hymans -- 11. Promoting practical alternatives to preventive force in the wake of operation Iraqi freedom / William Hartung -- 12. Preventive force : untangling the discourse / William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell.
ISBN
  • 0822942909 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822959364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006015728
OCLC
  • ocm68800024
  • SCSB-5279580
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries