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CIAO DATE: 11/2014

America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems And How To Fix Them

John F. Lehman (ed), Harvey Sicherman (ed)

October 2014

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface vii
John H. Ball

America the Vulnerable 1
John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman

Roles and Missions 12
Donald Kagan

Superpowers Don't Do Windows 27
John Hillen

The U.S. Presumption of Quick, Costless Wars 48
Andrew P. N. Erdmann

Operations, Procurement, and Industrial Base 73
Harry G. Summers Jr.

Civil-Military Relations 84
Eliot A. Cohen

The U.S. Military Must Find Its Voice 96
Sam C. Sarkesian

An Uninformed Debate on Military Culture 115
Don M. Snider

Does Military Culture Matter? 134
Williamson Murray

Must U.S. Military Culture Reform? 152
John Hillen

The Case for National Missile Defense 171
Keith B. Payne

Rethinking Bio-Chemical Dangers 182
Henry Sokolski

Bad Medicine for Biological Terror 196
Andrew J. Bacevich

Asymmetrical Adversaries 215
Winn Schwartau

The Risks of a Networked Military 225
Richard J. Harknett and the JCISS Study Group

The Defense Task Force 245

Biographical Notes on the Editors and Authors 246