Research Catalog

Title

Preventive defense : a new security strategy for America / Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry.

Author

Carter, Ashton B.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Perry, William James, 1927-

Description

ix, 243 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter draw on their experience as leaders of the U.S. Defense Department to propose a new American security strategy for the twenty-first century. After a century in which aggression had to be defeated in two world wars and then deterred through a prolonged cold war, the authors argue for a strategy centered on prevention." "The authors' preventive defense strategy concentrates on the dangers that, if mismanaged, have the potential to grow into true threats to U.S. survival in the next century." "They also argue for better management of the defense establishment so the United States will retain a strong military prepared to cope with all contingencies deter aggressors and win a conflict it deterrence faits."--Jacket.

Subject

• Since 1989
• Twenty-first century > Forecasts
• National security > United States
• World politics > 1989-
• United States > Military policy

Genre/Form

Forecasts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Four trips to Pervomaysk: preventive defense at work -- Preventive defense -- Pursuing Marshall's vision with Russia and NATO -- Project Sapphire, the Nunn-Lugar program, and arms control -- Dealing with a rising China -- Standing at the brink in North Korea: the counterproliferation imperative -- A false alarm (this time): preventive defense against catastrophic terrorism -- The threat within: shaping a force for the future.

ISBN

• 0815713088 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 081571307X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^98051245^//r98

OCLC

• 40452980
• SCSB-9998605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library