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Subject(s)

• United States—Military policy [Browse]
• United States—Armed Forces—Appropriations and expenditures [Browse]
• United States Department of Defense—Appropriations and expenditures [Browse]

Related name

• Steinbruner, John D., 1941- [Browse]

Series

Studies in defense policy [More in this series]

Summary note

Rapid change makes defense planning a moving target, and this pamphlet by two veteran Pentagon-watchers helps keep the target in view. According to Kaufmann and Steinbruner, the Pentagon's post-Iraq five-year plan to cut U.S. forces by a quarter (but spending by somewhat less) was too conservative, too nuclear and too enamored of high-technology birds in the bush at the expense of weapons in hand. They propose several cheaper options that still share the administration's cautious presumption that, for all the change, international politics has not been revolutionized. They conclude by relaxing that presumption to outline a cooperative security option, one based on the premise that "the participating military organizations are all on the same side." ISBN 0-8157-4885-X (pbk.): $9.95.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Force planning
• Fiscal 1990 budget
• Basis for the strategic nuclear forces
• Basis for the tactical nuclear forces
• Basis for the non-nuclear forces
• Costs of cold war security
• New environment
• Nuclear threats
• Non-nuclear threats
• Pentagon plan
• World according to Cheney
• Strategic concept
• Force structure
• Net assessment
• Costs
• Issues
• Nature of the trends
• How many Iraqs?
• North Korea and Cuba
• An irreducible minimum?
• Future resource constraints
• Insurance
• Three standard options
• Cooperative security option

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ISBN

• 081574885X
• 9780815748854

LCCN

91075759

OCLC

24452567

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