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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220102503321

Autore

Kent Glenn A. <1915->

Titolo

Thinking about America's defense : an analytical memoir / / Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Corp., 2008

ISBN

1-282-45105-7

9786612451058

0-8330-4862-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OchmanekDavid A

SpirtasMichael

PirnieBruce <1940->

Disciplina

355/.033073

Soggetti

Military planning - United States

Generals - United States

Strategic forces - United States

National security - United States

United States Defenses Decision making

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Foreword - Creating Strategic Analysis: Thomas C. Schelling; Foreword - Putting Analysis to Work: Harold Brown; Introduction: David Ochmanek, Bruce Pirnie, and Michael Spirtas; Chapter One - The Single Integrated Operational Plan; Chapter Two - Nuclear Weapons: Strategy and Arms Control; Chapter Three - Analysis, Force Planning, and the Paradigm forModernizing; Chapter Four - Modernizing Nuclear Forces; Chapter Five - Modernizing Conventional Forces; Chapter Six - Analytical Tools

Chapter Seven - Summing Up: Kent's MaximsChronology; Awards; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense policy in the second half of the



twentieth century. His 33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one of the leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the normal sense but rather a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which Glenn was personally engaged over the course of his career. These issues included creating the single integrated operational plan (SIOP),leading DoD's official assessment of strategic defenses in the 1960s,developing and analyz