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Edmund Beard, Developing the ICBM: A Study in Bureaucratic PoliticsAlbert Legault and George Lindsey, The Dynamics of the Nuclear Balance

POLAND IS UNDERGOING A RADICAL ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING IN DEFENSE POLICY, INCLUDING MILITARY PROBLEMS AND WITH NO EXPERIENCE IN THIS RESPECT, THIS IS A POINEERING TASK AND ACTIVITY. THIS ARTICLE BEGINS WITH THE THE GENERAL STATEMENT THAT THE AIM OF DEFENSE POLICY IS TO ENSURE A SECURE AND HARMONIOUS LIFE FOR THE NATION AS A WHOLE, AND FOR ALL ITS INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS AND TO GUARANTEE THE COUNTRY'S SOVEREIGNTY WITHIN THE EXISTING BORDERS AND WITHIN THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM ADOPTED BY THE PEOPLE. IT CONTINUES WITH AN ASSESSMENT OF POLAND'S POLITICAL-MILITARY SECURITY CONDITIONS IN THE 1990S AND OFFERS A PROGRAM FOR COUNTERING MILITARY CONFLICTS. IT CONCLUDES WITH A REPORT ON NON-MILITARY DEFENSIVE LINKS.

EXAMINES JAPANESE DEFENSE POLICY AND SOME OF THE FACTORS WHICH MAY PRODUCE CHANGES IN THIS POLICY. JAPAN'S DEFENSE POLICY HAS REMAINED STABLE, BUT PRESENT INTERSTATE RELATIONSHIPS MAY CHANGE THIS. JAPANESE POLICY IS PULLED BY TWO CONFLICTING GOALS, ONE IS REACISM, TO WATCH THE POLICIES OF OTHER NATION, IN SETTING POLICY, THE OT AER IS IDEALISM, THE DESIRE TO SET AN EXAMPLE IN POLICES.

Evaluates Japan's expanded role in Pacific Basin defense and U.S.-Japanese cooperation. Includes details of air and sea defense called for through 1990 by the Mid-Term Defense Estimate.

Machine generated contents note:pt. IValues and Interests for American Defense Policy --Introduction /Lynne Chandler Garcia --ch. 1Theories and Values --Necessity, Justice, Interest, and the Founding Principles of American Defense Policy /Jeff J. S. Black --Just War Theory: Revisionists Versus Traditionalists /Seth Lazar --Systematic Theory and the Future of Great Power War and Peace /Dale C. Copeland --Technological Change and International Relations /Daniel W. Drezner --ch. 2American Grand Strategy --Power, Culture, and Grand Strategy /Colin Dueck --Toward Strategic Solvency: the Crisis of American Military Primacy and the Search for Strategic Solvency /Eric Edelman --The Next Liberal Order: the Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less /G. John Ikenberry --Why "Conservative," Not Liberal, Internationalism? /Henry R. Nau --ch. 3The International Environment -- Allies --30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed? /Francis Fukuyama --Global Allies in a Changing World /Michael Wesley --An Economic Theory of Alliances /Richard Zeckhauser --The Power of Liberal International Organizations /Martha Finnemore --ch. 4The International Environment -- Adversaries --The Growing Challenge of Defining an "Enemy" /Michael J. Mazarr --The Theory of Hegemonic War /Robert Gilpin --Redefining the National Interest /Joseph S. Nye Jr --Technology Converges; Non-State Actors Benefit /T. X. Hammes --pt. IIEvolution and Revolution in Defense Policy, Process, and Institutions --Introduction /Miriam Krieger --ch. 5Evolution and Revolution in Civil-Military Relations --The Institutional Imbalance of American Statecraft /Cordon Adams --Restoring the Vision: Overcoming Gridlock to Reassert Congress's Role in Deliberating National Security /John McCain --Trump's Generals: Mattis, McMaster, and Kelly /Jessica Blankshain --Dissent, Resignation, and the Moral Agency of Senior Military Professionals /Don M. Snider --ch. 6The Changing Profession of Arms --Redefinitions and Transformations in the Profession of Arms /Christopher D. Miller --Identity Politics: How Service Cultures Influence the Evolving Profession of Arms /Jeffrey Donnithorne --Let Women Fight: Ending the US Military's Female Combat Ban /Megan H. Mackenzie --The Fight against Racial Injustice in America and Its Necessary Connection to National Security /Bishop Garrison --Diversity, Equity, and Justice in American Defense Policy /Editors of American Defense Policy (9th ed.) --Military Contractors and the American Way of War /Renee De Nevers --Exodus /Tim Kane --Rediscovering the Art of Strategic Thinking: Developing 21st-century Strategic Leaders /Daniel H. McCauley --ch. 7Resource Allocation and Force Structure for a Complex World --Quality over Quantity: US Military Strategy and Spending in the Trump Years /Michael O'Hanlon --Acquisition and Policy-Making: Echoes from the Past; Visions for the Future /Sally Baron --The Case for Joint Force Acquisition Reform /Joseph S. Lupa --Conflated Reality: Reserve and Active Duty Components in American Wars /Michael D. Gambone --pt. IIIContemporary Issues in American Defense Policy --Introduction /John Riley --ch. 8Homeland Defense: Threats from All Sides --New Frontiers, Old Realities /Everett Carl Dolman --Strategic Stability: the Low-Yield Nuclear Weapon Challenge /James M. Smith --Hacking Democracy /Ben Buchanan --Beyond Surprise Attack /Lawrence Freedman --ch. 9Unconventional Wars and Unconventional Forces --The Limits of Special Operations Forces /Austin Long --Unmanned Aircraft in Modern Conflicts: Diverging Paths and Key Lessons /Michael P. Kreuzer --The Hard Lessons of an Insurgency /John A. Nagl --Learning Lessons from Afghanistan: Two Imperatives /Hew Strachan --The Regularity of Irregular War: Defining Victory in Persistently Engaged Wars /David Sacko --ch. 10The Near Possible --Artificial Intelligence, International Competition, and the Balance of Power /Michael C. Horowitz --Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet: Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage /Mauro Gilli --The New Era of Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Conflict /Daryl G. Press --Thermonuclear Cyberwar /Jon R. Lindsay --The Security Implications of Climate Change: Charting Major Dimensions of the Challenge /Bruce Jones.

Lecture before the Royal united service institution, London, Eng., Oct. 29, 1969; with discussion.