Download or read book The Phantom Defense written by Craig Eisendrath and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original Star Wars proposals, were spectacular failures and call into question the whole program's rationale. Neither the land-based system proposed by the Clinton administration, nor the alternatives proposed by earlier administrations, would ever work--regardless of how much R&D money is channeled into the project. Rather than enhancing national security, these doomed efforts would provoke a new arms race and alienate key allies. The authors apply their extensive insiders' expertise to argue that thoughtful diplomacy is the only real answer to meet America's national security goals. Like President Reagan with his Star Wars program, President Bush has again made national missile defense (NMD) a national priority at a cost which may exceed $150 billion in the next ten years. Defense experts Eisendrath, Goodman, and Marsh contend that recent tests give little confidence that any of the systems under consideration--land-based, boost-phase, or laser-driven--have any chance of effective deployment within decades. The interests of the military-industrial complex and the unilateralist views of the Bush administration are driving NMD, not a desire to promote national security. Rather than increase U.S. security, the plans of the current administration, if implemented, will erode it. NMD will heighten the threat from China and Russia, alienate key allies, and provoke a new arms race and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, all in response to a greatly exaggerated threat from so-called rogue states, such as North Korea and Iran. Thoughtful diplomacy, not a misguided foreign policy based on a hopeless dream of a Fortress America, is the real answer to meeting Americas security goals. Designed to stimulate interest and debate among the public and policy-makers, The Phantom Defense provides solid facts and combines scientific, geopolitical, historical, and strategic analysis to critique the delusion of national missile defense, while suggesting a more effective alternative.
Download or read book The Phantom Defense written by Craig Ralph Eisendrath and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phantom of the Psyche written by Peter Michaelson and published by Prospect Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense and Security 2 volumes written by Karl DeRouen Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, up-to-date examination of the national security and defense policies of 50 influential nations and regions across the globe. Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies presents highly readable, authoritative essays profiling the defense and security policies of over 50 individual countries and regions, with a focus on present-day developments. Written by leading national and international scholars and edited by eminent political science experts Karl DeRouen and Uk Heo, the essays take an in-depth look at each nation's current security situation, defense spending, present and potential military confrontations, civil–military relations, alliances, relations to terrorism, and other topics of importance. Historical events and conflicts are highlighted as well, with emphasis on the post–Cold War era. The essays are parallel in structure, allowing readers to pinpoint similarities and draw comparisons among nations. The two-volume set also includes a detailed introduction featuring a cross-national comparison.
Download or read book Worthy Fights written by Leon Panetta and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a run as one of Congress's most powerful and respected members, lasted 35 years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then 'retired' to establish the Panetta Institute,to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect the California coast. In 2009 he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA.
Download or read book Last Line of Defense written by Jeff Kaye and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last Line of Defense" is about the military-industrial complex. The twentieth century has witnessed the uncertain link between business need, political will and personal greed exploding into acrimony and corruption. This book examines the tenuous links from the Yom Kippur war in 1973 through the mid-1990´s. It follows the exploits of one corporation, Global Corp, and its management as they drive on to make their company dominant. The book also analyses the buyers and the sellers, the intermediaries and the promoters of exports. The military-industrial complex has been with us for centuries. With weaponry now of a global dimension, it has never been more important that we understand the drivers behind the people, the companies and the Governments of buying and selling nations. Right and wrong often blur as tides of opinion change overnight, but there is no consensus for those involved to rely on. Every democracy has to continuously seek to ensure that it keeps its international interests secure while maintaining jobs within the country or state. Corruption is continuous, though, and the sale of military equipment to many nations means always drawing a fine line between what is right and what is expedient. "Last Line of Defense" shows the strains that always affect this business. It draws down deep into the minds of the people that work this marketplace and those around them. It follows the career of one man, Lionel Curtis, taken from obscurity to the top of one of the most powerful businesses in the nation. His rise is propelled upon the actions and misfortunes of others. As he "goes with the flow" of history, will he be ready when the river´s flow alters course? Behind him lurks the seedier side of the business, one he knows is there but would rather not. These are the deal-makers that make sure business is successful. They are always there as companies come and go. Whether acting on their own, within large corporations or even within the Government, they are oil that greases the wheel of the military-industrial complex.
Download or read book You Decide written by Edward R. Drachman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book touches on nearly every facet of international relations today, including terrorism, global warming, child labor, and AIDS.
Download or read book Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence written by Columba Peoples and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.
Download or read book Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Phantom Menace written by Matthew Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phantom Respondents written by John O. Brehm and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines a fundamental problem for opinion polls and those who use them. /div
Download or read book Wu Soul Chili River written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 2867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squatting in the corner, washing a bowl full of chopsticks, the teenager looked blankly at the emaciated mother being bossed around as a servant.
Download or read book The Case of the Phantom Bullet written by Jeffery Sealing and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Rivera is a young Hispanic male who is arrested, accused of shooting two people to death on New Year's Eve in the small town of Ironton, Colorado. The evidence is damaging to Juan Rivera. As he sits in a jail cell inside of the Ironton Town Marshal's office, he waits to see what his fate will be. The town of Ironton has only one criminal defense attorney, Daniel Marcos. Although his specialty in law school at Denver University was Constitutional Law, the Bar Association certified him for criminal law. With the help of his secretary Lynn Lyons along with a very capable and beautiful Asian female private investigator named Jessica Kim, they try to unravel the events of that night in an effort to expose the real killer. With very little to go on, Daniel, Lynn and Jessica do their best. Daniel is soon in court with one of the toughest judges in the town of Ironton; Judge Larry Bishop and one of the toughest District Attorney's that the 6th Judicial District has to offer; Linda Bacara. Her tough approach to the case leaves little doubt as to the fate of Juan Rivera; life in prison without parole for two counts of murder in the first degree. Can Daniel get the job done in time? Find out in this, Daniel's first case.
Download or read book Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons written by Anne I. Harrington and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of the influence of emotions, cognitive biases, an aversion to loss, and other strong motivations and values. These findings about the limits of rationality have formed the basis of behavioral economics, an approach that has attracted enormous attention in recent years. This collection of essays applies the insights of behavioral economics to the study of nuclear weapons policy. Behavioral economics gives us a more accurate picture of how people think and, as a consequence, of how they make decisions about whether to acquire or use nuclear arms. Such decisions are made in real-world circumstances in which rational calculations about cost and benefit are intertwined with complicated emotions and subject to human limitations. Strategies for pursuing nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation should therefore, argue the contributors, account for these dynamics in a systematic way. The contributors to this collection examine how a behavioral approach might inform our understanding of topics such as deterrence, economic sanctions, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and U.S. domestic debates about ballistic missile defense. The essays also take note of the limitations of a behavioral approach for dealing with situations in which even a single deviation from the predictions of any model can have dire consequences.
Download or read book The Israel Defense Forces written by Louis Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders view of the Army of Israel, its structure, its men and women and its most memorable actions.
Download or read book National Missile Defense NMD Deployment written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
