Hard Power: The New Politics of National SecurityBasic Books, 2006 M10 3 - 319 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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... attack on American soil in the nation's history . Jump forward just a few years to the winter of 2006 , when a group of retired senior military officers gathered in an upstairs room at a private Washington restaurant to talk about the ...
... attack on American soil in the nation's history . Jump forward just a few years to the winter of 2006 , when a group of retired senior military officers gathered in an upstairs room at a private Washington restaurant to talk about the ...
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... attacks - for a time . On the night of the attacks , Democratic and Republican members of Congress gathered on the steps of the Capitol to sing " God Bless Amer- ica . " Democrats lined up behind the president on the decisions to go to ...
... attacks - for a time . On the night of the attacks , Democratic and Republican members of Congress gathered on the steps of the Capitol to sing " God Bless Amer- ica . " Democrats lined up behind the president on the decisions to go to ...
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... attacks and the U.S. government's failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq , Americans have witnessed two of the greatest intelligence failures in American history . The bloody oc- cupation of Iraq and the inadequate response ...
... attacks and the U.S. government's failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq , Americans have witnessed two of the greatest intelligence failures in American history . The bloody oc- cupation of Iraq and the inadequate response ...
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... attacks of September 11 , 2001. Democrats want the nation to associate their party with Roosevelt's stoic courage during 1942 in the darkest days of the struggle with the Axis powers , Truman's con- struction of the NATO alliance and ...
... attacks of September 11 , 2001. Democrats want the nation to associate their party with Roosevelt's stoic courage during 1942 in the darkest days of the struggle with the Axis powers , Truman's con- struction of the NATO alliance and ...
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Contents
Its the War Stupid Why National Security Is the Essential Electoral Issue | 11 |
Irag The Myth of Republican Superiority and the Future | 47 |
Managing the Military | 75 |
Homeland Security Taking It to the Next Level | 119 |
Winning the Long War | 137 |
The Real Triple Threat Energy and Security Global Climate Change and Terrorist Financing | 159 |
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Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security Kurt Campbell,Michael O'Hanlon Limited preview - 2007 |
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