Designing Defense for a New World Order
The Military Budget in 1992 and Beyond
Published on 1. September 1991
92 pages
978-1-935308-85-0 (ISBN)
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A policy of global intervention, whereby we adopt every country's threats as our own, is the strategic premise of the Bush administration's post-Persian Gulf defense program, argues former Pentagon official Earl C. Ravenal. Ravenal's alternative defense budget, based on a strategy of noninterventionism, would save American taxpayers more than $300 billion over the next five years. It would also phase out such increasingly irrelevant cold-war-era commitments as those to NATO, Japan and South Korea. Given the nature of the emerging international system, what is needed is not a vain effort to impose a global Pax Americana but a new U.S. security strategy appropraite for a "nation among nations" in the post-cold-war era. Ravenal's incisive analysis is certain to stimulate debate on the U.S. defense strategy and America's role in the world.
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Content
- DESIGNING DEFENSE FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
- Contents
- THE BUSH 1992 DEFENSE PROGRAM: "TWO TIMES THREE-QUARTER WARS
- THE SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD
- GEOPOLITICAL LESSONS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF
- THE FUTURE SHAPE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
- IMPLICATIONS FOR SECURITY
- THE SO-WHAT FACTOR
- THE EXAMPLE OF THE PERSIAN GULF
- PRINCIPLES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
- THE DEFENSE DEBATE
- FORCE AND BUDGETARY PLANNING
- EPILOGUE: A NATION AMONG NATIONS
