The Crisis Within : America's Military and the Struggle Between the Overseas and Guardian Paradigms

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910219966803321
• Autore: Thornhill Paula G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: RAND Corporation, 2016
• ISBN: 0-8330-9524-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetti: Air forces and warfare; History of the Americas; Military history; Naval forces and warfare; United States Military policy; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue: the colonel's crisis -- Introduction -- Organized violence : the military's unique responsibility -- Thomas Kuhn on problems, paradigms, anomalies, and paradigm shifts -- The common defense and the continental paradigm -- The common defense and the overseas paradigm -- The Second World War validates the overseas paradigm -- The overseas paradigm : accounting for the Second World War's anomalies -- The overseas paradigm : accounting for additional anomalies, 1950-1975 -- The overseas paradigm : conflicting signals, 1975-2001 -- Inconsistencies in the overseas paradigm : The Post-9/11 era -- Crisis and the overseas paradigm -- Rise of the guardian paradigm? -- Possible implications of a paradigm change -- Epilogue: the colonel's retirement speech.
• Sommario/riassunto: The nation's understanding of both the common defense and organized violence has changed dramatically since 2001, and the diversification in the employment of violence produced a profound paradigm shift. This report is an attempt to start a conversation about how to better understand America's 21st-century military.