03222nam 2200649 a 450 991022010250332120200520144314.01-282-45105-797866124510580-8330-4862-7(CKB)2550000000005576(EBL)475080(OCoLC)276956206(SSID)ssj0000343686(PQKBManifestationID)12135967(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343686(PQKBWorkID)10291716(PQKB)11348322(MiAaPQ)EBC475080(EXLCZ)99255000000000557620080611d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThinking about America's defense an analytical memoir /Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. PirnieSanta Monica, CA Rand Corp.20081 online resource (283 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8330-4452-4 Includes bibliographical references.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 ToolsChapter Seven - Summing Up: Kent's MaximsChronology; Awards; BibliographyLieutenant 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 analyzMilitary planningUnited StatesGeneralsUnited StatesBiographyStrategic forcesUnited StatesNational securityUnited StatesUnited StatesDefensesDecision makingUnited StatesMilitary policyMilitary planningGeneralsStrategic forcesNational security355/.033073Kent Glenn A.1915-1236034Ochmanek David A869935Spirtas Michael1236035Pirnie Bruce1940-1047835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910220102503321Thinking about America's defense2870402UNINA