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On the meaning of victory : essays on strategy

Title: On the meaning of victory : essays on strategy / Edward N. Luttwak.
Author: Luttwak, Edward.
Publication: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1986.

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Description

315 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Examines the problems and possibilities facing the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, from the threat of nuclear war and the military's strategic thinking, to the interplay of politics, personality, and history.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ten questions about SALT II -- Is there an arms race? A new arms race? -- How to think about nuclear war -- Why we need more "waste, fraud & mismanagement" in the Pentagon -- Deus ex missiles -- East-West struggle -- Economic instrument in statecraft -- Geopolitical perspective on the US-Soviet competition -- A historical precedent : the Romans in Dacia. A record of failure. Of bombs and men -- On the meaning of strategy ... for the United States in the 1980s -- After Afghanistan, what? -- Intervention and access to natural resources -- On the meaning of victory.

ISBN

0671610899
9780671610890

LCCN

85026145

OCLC

ocm12804710
12804710
SCSB-9554463

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library