Star spangled security : applying lessons learned over six decades safeguarding America / / Harold Brown. with Joyce Winslow
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| Autore: |
Brown Harold <1927-2019>
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| Titolo: |
Star spangled security : applying lessons learned over six decades safeguarding America / / Harold Brown. with Joyce Winslow
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 355/.033573 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cabinet officers - United States |
| National security - United States - Decision making | |
| National security - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Military policy Decision making Case studies |
| United States Military policy Planning | |
| Altri autori: |
WinslowJoyce
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue -- Oh, say can you see : the view from the top -- What so proudly we hail : insuring national defense through its budget -- Stripes and bright stars : how the team at the top affects security policy -- The perilous fight : Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis -- Rockets' red glare and bombs : plans, programs, and agreements -- The ramparts we watched : dealing with the outside world -- That banner yet waves : preparing for what lies ahead -- Land of the free : stimulating the national economy for international security -- Home of the brave : America at a tipping point. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War. A physicist, Brown had previously led Livermore Laboratory and its development of the Polaris missile warhead. By age 33 he was director of Defense Research and Engineering, and he later served as secretary of the U.S. Air Force early in the Vietnam War. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Star spangled security |
| ISBN: | 1-283-61332-8 |
| 9786613925770 | |
| 0-8157-2383-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828627703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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