New face of war : weapons of mass destruction and the revitalization of America's transoceanic military strategy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chandler, Robert W.
Other Authors:	Backschies, John R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	McLean, Va. : Amcoda Press, [1998]
Subjects:	United States > Armed Forces > Operational readiness. United States > Military policy. Weapons of mass destruction. Arms race. Strategy. Armed Forces > Operational readiness. Military policy. United States. Militär. Kampfbereitschaft. Rüstung. Sicherheitspolitik. Massenvernichtungswaffe. USA.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. U.S. strategy at a crossroads. "The roaring twenty-first century"
pt. 2. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other advanced technologies. Nuclear and radiological weapons
Biological weapons
Chemical weapons
Advanced conventional weapons and military technology
Ballistic and cruise missiles
Biological and chemical 'blowback'
Super-terrorism
pt. 3. A new power projection risk calculus. Lessons from the Persian Gulf War
America's strategy under attack
The anti-strategy
pt. 4. Global reconnaissance-strike complex. Massing firepower, not forces
Getting from here to there
pt. 5. The eleventh plague. Conclusion : immunizing U.S. strategy against weapons of mass destruction.