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National Security Dilemmas - Challenges and Opportunities (Paperback)
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National Security Dilemmas - Challenges and Opportunities (Paperback)
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A contemporary primer on the leading arguments about U.S. national
security, "National Security Dilemmas" addresses the major
challenges and opportunities that are live-issue areas for American
policymakers and strategists today. Colin S. Gray provides an
in-depth analysis of a policy and strategy for deterrence; the
long-term U.S. bid to transform its armed forces' capabilities,
with particular reference to strategic surprise, in the face of
many great uncertainties; the difficulty of understanding and
exploiting the challenge of revolutionary change in warfare; the
problems posed by enemies who fight using irregular methods; and
the awesome dilemmas for U.S. policy over the options to wage
preventive and preemptive warfare.With forty years' experience as a
strategist, within and outside of government, Gray uses a
problem-solving motif throughout the book, suggesting solutions to
the challenges he identifies. The book's master narrative is that
the United States must take a more considered strategic approach to
its security dilemmas. Too often, the country's leaders decide on a
policy and then move to take action, all the while neglecting to
devise a plan that would connect its political purposes to military
means. While many of Gray's judgments here are critical of current
ideas and behavior, he crafted them as helpful guides should
planners adopt them when revising policies and approaches. Strategy
is a practical matter; truly it is the zone wherein theory meets
practice.This text can be used as an expert guide to the major
national security challenges of today. It both explains the
structure of these challenges and provides useful answers. With a
foreword by Lt. Gen. Paul K. VanRiper, USMC (Ret.), Bren Chair,
Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia.
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