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Thinking about America's defense :

(Number (ISBN

0833048627

(Number (ISBN

1282451057

(Number (ISBN

661245105X

(Number (ISBN

9780833048622

(Number (ISBN

9781282451056

(Number (ISBN

9786612451058

Erroneous ISBN

0833044524

Erroneous ISBN

9780833044525

Number

b734877

Title Proper

Thinking about America's defense :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an analytical memoir /

First Statement of Responsibility

Glenn A. Kent ; with David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Santa Monica, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rand,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxiv, 257 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Occasional paper ;

Volume Designation

223

Text of Note

"Prepared for the United States Air Force."

Text of Note

"Project Air Force."

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Ch. 1: The single integrated operational plan -- ch. 2: Nuclear weapons: strategy and arms control -- ch. 3: Analysis, force planning, and the paradigm for modernizing -- ch. 4: Modernizing nuclear forces -- ch. 5: Modernizing conventional forces -- ch. 6: Analytical tools -- ch. 7: Summing up: Kent's maxims -- Chronology.

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Text of Note

"Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His 33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one of the leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the normal sense but rather a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which Glenn was personally engaged over the course of his career. These issues included creating the single integrated operational plan (SIOP), leading DoD's official assessment of strategic defenses in the 1960s, developing and analyzing strategic nuclear arms control agreements, helping to bring new weapon systems to life, and many others. Each vignette describes the analytical frameworks and, where appropriate, the mathematical formulas and charts that Glenn developed and applied to gain insights into the issue at hand. The author also relates his roles in much of the bureaucratic pulling and hauling that occurred as issues were addressed within the government."--Publisher's website.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

22573/cttgv74

Stock Number

E20156D5-AA64-4538-9F0B-8056FEB54239

Title

Thinking about America's defense.

International Standard Book Number

9780833044525

United States.-- Officers

United States.

United States.

Generals-- United States, Biography.

Military planning-- United States.

National security-- United States.

Strategic forces-- United States.

Armed Forces-- Officers.

Generals.

Law, Politics & Government.

Military & Naval Science.

Military planning.

Military policy.

Military readiness-- Decision making.

Military Science - General.

National security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- International Security.

Strategic forces.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Military Science.

TECHNOLOGY-- Military Science.

United States, Defenses, Decision making.

United States, Military policy.

United States.

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JWG, JWK

POL-- 012000

POL-- 035000

POL012000

POL035000

TEC-- 025000

TEC025000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kent, Glenn A.,1915-

Ochmanek, David A.

Pirnie, Bruce,1940-

Spirtas, Michael.

Project Air Force (U.S.)

Date of Transaction

20201216163639.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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