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This book analyzes President Bush's new Regional Defense Strategy--the master plan that will guide the transformation of U.S. defense policy for the post-Cold War era. Most recent books on defense prescribe how U.S. policy ought to change or critique past policies without taking Bush's new strategy into account. This book takes a different approach, providing the first comprehensive assessment of the new Regional Defense Strategy, analyzing the consequences for U.S. forces and alliance relations, and examining the political difficulties of transforming President Bush's vision into reality. It explains major changes in U.S. defense doctrine and strategy, force and command structure, future programming requirements, and the major question of how such a significant change was managed in the United States.
Much is new and even radical about the Regional Defense Strategy. Bush has built it around the concept of reconstitution, under which the United States will scrap the forces needed to fight a large-scale conflict and rely on the ability to create new forces if such a conflict looms on the horizon. However, reconstitution will impose demanding requirements on U.S. intelligence and the defense industrial base. Congress will also have an important say over this proposal and the new national security strategy as a whole. So will U.S. allies in Europe and the Far East, some of whom are already moving to recast the strategy's proposals for basing U.S. forces abroad. The primary audience of this book is politico-military strategic planners and those interested in organizational theory, management of change in large organizations, and government policy.
List of contents
Introduction by Paul N. Stockton
The New National Security Strategy and Base Force by James J. Tritten
U.S. Intelligence and the New National Security Strategy by Thomas B. Grassey
Riding on the Storm: The Influence of War on Strategy by Michael N. Pocalyko
The Congressional Response by Paul N. Stockton
The Means to Deliver: Implications of the New National Security Strategy for Maritime Forces by Sam J. Tangredi
Strategic Nuclear Policy in a Time of Fundamental Change by Bruce W. MacDonald
A New American Strategy in Asia? by Edward A. Olsen
U.S. Forces in Europe: The Search for a Mission by Jan S. Breemer
Conclusion by James J. Wirtz
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Paul N. Stockton, James J. Tritten
