Only the Most Able - Moving Beyond Politics in the Selection of National Security Leaders

Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Duncan served as assistant secretary of defense in two presidential administrations and as the Pentagon's senior Drug War official. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran with more than forty years of active and reserve naval service and the recipient of two awards of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. He has been a senior executive in two defense industry technology companies, a federal criminal prosecutor, a partner in major law firms, and the Director of the Institute for Homeland Security Studies at the National Defense University. Duncan is the author of Citizen Warriors and A War of a Different Kind. Klappentext Stephen M. Duncan draws on a lifetime of military, public service, executive, and legal experience to argue with unusual insight and candor why the quality and performance of senior political appointees who are charged even in part with the nation's security must be improved, and offers specific recommendations on how this can be accomplished. This timely book will appeal to Americans of all political persuasions, as well as those with particular interests in political and military history. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: The Power to Appoint Civilian LeadersChapter 2: The Professionalism of Military Leaders Prior to 1972Chapter 3: Personnel is PolicyChapter 4: Politics and Unqualified Civilian LeadersChapter 5: The Professionalism of Military Leaders from 1972 to 9/11/2001Chapter 6: Civilian Leaders Who Can Get Things DoneChapter 7: Professionalism in the Era of Wars of a Different KindChapter 8: Trust and Clashes of Culture and CompetenceChapter 9: Politics in the Middle of WarChapter 10: The "Professionalization" of Amateur AppointeesConclusionNotes

Product details

• Authors: Stephen M. Duncan, Duncan Stephen M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9781442220225
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2022-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, International Relations, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies