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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... leaders to meet national-security challenges, the electorate would choose “strong and wrong” over “timid and right” every time. (Here the analogy to Lincoln clearly loses relevance.) This essential conundrum helps explain repeated ...
... leaders to meet national-security challenges, the electorate would choose “strong and wrong” over “timid and right” every time. (Here the analogy to Lincoln clearly loses relevance.) This essential conundrum helps explain repeated ...
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... leader have been marginalized or alienated from the decisionmaking core of the Bush presidency on foreign-policy matters. This book was inspired by a desire to provide hard-headed ideas and intellectual ammunition to both Democrats and ...
... leader have been marginalized or alienated from the decisionmaking core of the Bush presidency on foreign-policy matters. This book was inspired by a desire to provide hard-headed ideas and intellectual ammunition to both Democrats and ...
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... leaders are to avoid further marginalization, they must acknowledge that the electorate's current national-security focus deserves prima facie attention. The second, more important rationale behind this imperative is that Democrats ...
... leaders are to avoid further marginalization, they must acknowledge that the electorate's current national-security focus deserves prima facie attention. The second, more important rationale behind this imperative is that Democrats ...
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... leadership, then the remedy would be to make it harder for civilian Democrats to carry the country to war in the first place. Toward this end, Creighton Abrams, who directed Vietnam operations between 1968 and 1972, initiated the Total ...
... leadership, then the remedy would be to make it harder for civilian Democrats to carry the country to war in the first place. Toward this end, Creighton Abrams, who directed Vietnam operations between 1968 and 1972, initiated the Total ...
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... leadership that they could not wage war without the consent of those they called upon to fight, since the politically difficult task of taking America to war would be almost infeasible without the active support of those in uniform ...
... leadership that they could not wage war without the consent of those they called upon to fight, since the politically difficult task of taking America to war would be almost infeasible without the active support of those in uniform ...
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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Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security Kurt M. Campbell,Michael E. O'Hanlon Limited preview - 2006 |
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