New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking /
It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), th...
| Автор-организации: | RAND Corporation. |
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| Други автори: | Johnson, Stuart E., 1944-, Libicki, Martin C., Treverton, Gregory F. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Santa Monica, Calif. :
Rand,
2003.
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| Серия: |
MR (Series) ;
MR-1576-RC. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=81666 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking. |
| Резюме: |
It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats -- ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges -- from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
"MR-1576-RC." |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxiv, 390 pages) : illustrations. |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0833034103 9780833034106 0833032895 9780833032898 |