Preventive defense : a new security strategy for America /

Carter, Ashton B.

Preventive defense : a new security strategy for America / Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1999. - ix, 243 p., [16] p. of plates ill. ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229) and index.

Four trips to Pervomaysk: preventive defense at work -- Preventive disease -- Pursuing Marshall's vision with Russia and NATO -- Project Sapphire, the Nunn-Lugar program, and arms control -- Dealing with rising China -- Standing at the brink in North Korea: the counterproliferation imperative -- A false alarm (this time): preventive defense against catastrophic terrorism -- The threat within: shaping a force for the future.

0815713088 (cloth : acidfree paper) 081571307X (pbk. : acidfree paper)


national security--USA
politics--international relations


United States--Military policy.
USA--military strategy--counterproliferation--CTR

counterterrorism