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US defense politics the origins of security policy

This textbook provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been fully updated and revised, with a new chapter on intelligence and new material on unmanned drones, women in the military, the Tea Party, and other key issues. Analyzing the ways i...

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Main Authors: Sapolsky, Harvey M. (Author), Gholz, Eugene 1971- (Author), almadge, Caitlin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2014
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
National security > United States
Civil-military relations $z United States
United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures
United States > Military policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Enduring questions, changing politics
  • America's security strategy
  • Organizing for defense: the evolution of US civil-military relations
  • Managing defense
  • Who fights America's wars?
  • Service politics
  • The political economy of defense
  • The weapons acquisition process
  • Congress, special interests, and presidents
  • Gaining intelligence
  • Homeland security
  • Preparing for the next war.

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