UNITED STATES POST-COLD WAR DEFENCE INTERESTS A REVIEW OF THE FIRST DECADEPDF电子书下载

Part. I: Introduction 1

1: History after the end of history 3

Part. II: Political perspectives 33

2: The United Nations' transition in the post-Cold War era : time for change? 35

3: NATO's changing mission 50

4: The new regionalism : mapping change in the post Cold War era 66

5: Redefining the former Warsaw Pact nations 79

6: Instituting change in U.S. foreign policy towards the emerging Pacific Rim 93

Part. III: Military-strategic perspectives 111

7: U.S. nuclear weapons policy in transition 113

8: Transitional perspectives on conventional, chemical and biological weapons production 131

9: Military operations other than war : coming in from the cold 149

10: Power projection : continuity and change 165

11: Airpower's effectiveness in a changing world destabilized by asymmetric threats 181

12: Sizing the military force in the post-Cold War era 201

13: Adapting service doctrine to a new world order 220

14: The changing defense industrial base 235

Part. IV: Conclusion 251

15: History is dead : long live history! 253

Index 260