Hard Power: The New Politics of National SecurityBasic Books, 2007 M03 9 - 336 pages Our ideas about national security have changed radically over the last five years. It has become a political tool, a "wedge issue," a symbol of pride and fear. It is also the one issue above all others that can make or break an election. And this is why the Democratic Party has been steadily losing power since 2001. In Hard Power, Michael O'Hanlon, an expert on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, and Kurt Campbell, an authority on international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explain how the Democrats lost credibility on issues of security and foreign policy, how they can get it back -- and why they must. They recall the successful Democratic military legacy of past decades, as well as recent Democratic innovations -- like the Homeland Security Office and the idea of nation-building -- that have been successfully co-opted by the Republican administration. And, most importantly, they develop a broad national security vision for America, including specific defense policies and a strategy to win the war on terror. |
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... Campaign Against Terrorism, 2001 (With M.A. Flournoy) ALSO BY MICHAEL E. O'HANLON Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea, 2003 (With Mike M. Mochizuki) Defense Strategy for the Post—Saddam Era, 2005 HARD ...
... Campaign Against Terrorism, 2001 (With M.A. Flournoy) ALSO BY MICHAEL E. O'HANLON Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea, 2003 (With Mike M. Mochizuki) Defense Strategy for the Post—Saddam Era, 2005 HARD ...
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... campaign during which the Republicans had relentlessly criticized the Democratic stewardship of the Pentagon, the United States had just overwhelmingly prevailed with a military recruited, armed, and trained largely by President ...
... campaign during which the Republicans had relentlessly criticized the Democratic stewardship of the Pentagon, the United States had just overwhelmingly prevailed with a military recruited, armed, and trained largely by President ...
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... campaigns and hard on the Bush administration for its handling of Iraq. On the flip side, we are generally complimentary about how the Republicans have handled homeland security despite serious problems in starting up the new department ...
... campaigns and hard on the Bush administration for its handling of Iraq. On the flip side, we are generally complimentary about how the Republicans have handled homeland security despite serious problems in starting up the new department ...
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... campaign strategy for President George W Bush in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war and an uncertain economy ... campaigns, conducted the most significant reorganization of our government's national-security architecture since ...
... campaign strategy for President George W Bush in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war and an uncertain economy ... campaigns, conducted the most significant reorganization of our government's national-security architecture since ...
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... campaign partisan, when questioned about the seeming contradictions of his candidate's approach to a problem during the 2004 campaign, responded with some annoyance that “I may not know what the right position is on some issue or ...
... campaign partisan, when questioned about the seeming contradictions of his candidate's approach to a problem during the 2004 campaign, responded with some annoyance that “I may not know what the right position is on some issue or ...
Contents
H A P T E R T W 0 | 47 |
CHAPTER THREE | 75 |
H A P T E R F O U | 119 |
HA P T E R FIVE | 137 |
HA P T E R S IX | 159 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 185 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 211 |
CONCLUSION | 237 |
Notes | 253 |
Index | 291 |
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