Cases in U.S. national security concepts and processes
"A series of brief case studies representing current and controversial policy problems facilitates deliberation and debate about competing policy ideas, and encourages undergraduate students to think critically about issues of national security. Cases include new strategies for containing the t...
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Lanham, Maryland
Rowman & Littlefield
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Starting at the beginning: basic dynamics and concerns
- Strategic dynamics
- Asymmetrical warfare: the new American way of war?
- The evolving face of terror: the dilemmas of terrorism strategy
- Nuclear deterrence redux: the new shadow of the mushroom-shaped cloud
- Dealing with nuclear proliferation: the NPT and BMD approaches
- Two scorpions in a bottle: managing the DPRK nuclear threat
- The great satans: the United States, Iran, and nuclear weapons
- Geographic spotlights
- The continuing Middle East riddle: Jerusalem and the Palestinian state
- America's longest war: the Afghanistan trap
- Syria: the perfect maelstrom
- Russia: dealing with a long-tterm rival
- China: dealing with the frenemy with a new face
- Africa: the new battleground?
- Political context
- How much of what is enough? What kinds, levels, and costs of U.S. force?
- Military personnel: where do the soldiers come from?
- Cybersecurity: the newest frontier
- Force multiplication: drone warfare or drone terror?
- Conclusion
- Quo vadis: facing the national security future