Odom, William E. America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War. Washington, DC: American University Press, 1993. UA23/.035 Odom, William E. America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War. Washington, DC: American University Press, 1993. UA23/.035
Cohen, FA 73.2, calls this a "short, prescriptive work." Odom "favors a 12-division army but has less use for the other services." For Wright, WPNWE, 22-28 Nov. 1993, the author has failed to deliver on his promises of candor; there are "few forthright statements to be found" in his book.
Oye, Kenneth A, Robert J. Lieber, and Donald Rothchild, eds. Eagle in a New World: American Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
This is an undergraduate-level national security text.
Perle, Richard N. Reshaping Western Security. Waldorf, MD: AEI Press, 1991. UA646R464
Romm, Joseph J. Defining National Security: The Nonmilitary Aspects. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993.
According to Cohen, FA (Summer 1993), Romm "looks at U.S. drug interdiction policy and the new notions of environmental, energy and economic security, shrugging aside the older, military conception of national security as having declining relevance in the new world.... An expanded article rather than a book..., [the author] expresses an increasingly common view, but not particularly incisively."
Rosner, Jeremy D. The New Tug-of-War: Congress, the Executive Branch, and National Security. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1995.
From advertisement: "This study argues that the end of the Cold War itself -- quite apart from the new Republican majority in Congress -- is producing subtle but systematic changes in the relationship between the two branches of government. The author ... illustrates his arguments with two detailed case studies[:] President Clinton's 1993 package of aid to Russia and other post-Soviet states, and Congressional action on peacekeeping in 1993-94."
Rostow, Eugene V. A Breakfast for Napoleon: U.S. National Security Interests from the Heights of Abraham to the Nuclear Age. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1993. Toward Managed Peace: The National Security Interests of the United States, 1759 to the Present. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. E1837R748
Roy, Denny. "Human Rights as a National Security Threat: The Case of the PRC." Issues and Studies 32, no. 2 (Feb. 1996): 65-81.
Sandholtz, Wayne, et al. The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System. A Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) Project on Economy and Security. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Shuman, Howard E., and Walter R. Thomas. The Constitution and National Security: A Bicentennial View. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1990.
Shuman, Michael H., and Hal Harvey. Security Without War: A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.
According to Fukuyama, FA 73.3, Shuman and Harvey espouse a "clear-cut, if somewhat predictable, progressive foreign policy agenda.... Many of the agenda items here ... have already been overtaken by events."
Snow, Donald M. Distant Thunder: Third World Conflict and the New International Order. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.
Sterling, Claire. Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Fukuyama, FA 73.5: This is a "clear and accessible account of the growth of ostensibly new international alliances of criminal organizations." Sterling "tends to report allegations a bit uncritically." However, the book is filled with "fascinating facts."
Tritten, James J., and Paul N. Stockton, eds. Reconstituting America's Defense -- The New U.S. National Security Strategy. New York: Praeger, 1992.
MI 19.3: This book "provides neither balanced debate nor comprehensive discussion. Instead, it is more of a collection of opinions and advocacies, some more thoughtful than others.... [S]ome of the discussions have already been overcome by events." It is "not for those seeking a comprehensive analysis of our nation's new national security strategy"; nor is it "the most current or complete book available on the subject."
U.S. General Accounting Office. National Security: Papers Prepared for GAO Conference on Worldwide Threats. Supplement to a Report to the Chairmen, Senate and House Committees on Armed Services. Washington, DC: GPO, 1992. [GAO/NSIAD-92-104S]
U.S. General Accounting Office. National Security: Perspectives on Worldwide Threats and Implications for U.S. Forces. Report to the Chairmen, Senate and House Committees on Armed Services. Washington, DC: GPO, 1992. [GAO/NSIAD-92-104]
Vandenbroucke, Lucien S. Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University, 1993. E8404V36
Cohen, FA 73.2 calls this a "commendable study of ... the Bay of Pigs, the Son Tay raid, the Mayaguez rescue and the Desert One fiasco.... Readers ... may set aside the didactic concluding chapter and content themselves with four well-researched cases."
According to Immerman, AHR 100.1, "Vandenbroucke identifies common explanations for the outcomes [of his four cases]. These include faulty intelligence, poor interagency and interservice cooperation and coordination, a decision making system plagued by flawed advice and wishful thinking, and micromanagement by both civilian and military leaders far removed from the theater of operations.... This is a suggestive study, but asking broader questions would have made it more compelling."
Hilsman, PSQ 109.4, refers to the author's "calm gathering of the facts" and "convincing analysis." The author "shows that only one of the four principal special operations in the last thirty years was justified." The "book contains only a few minor errors." For example, it was the Soviets, not Castro, who took the initiative in placing Soviet missiles in Cuba. "More serious is the author's overall conclusion that ... the United States should put more emphasis on espionage..., since technical intelligence ... cannot look inside buildings. But the fact is that ... espionage has been successful only in ferreting out technical and scientific secrets and almost never plans for offensives and the like."
Weinberger, Caspar, and Peter Schweizer. The Next War. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1996.
Friedman, NSLR 19.1, says that the "former Secretary of Defense has devised [five] scenarios in which the short-term thinking that drives budget decisions today leads to grave crises in the future.... Weinberger believes that America has dissipated its strength," that U.S. "technological superiority is diminishing.... His scenarios illustrate the potential consequences of under-investment in advanced technologies." Campbell, History 26.1, sees The Next War as "a very worthwhile attempt to alert Americans to threats to the nation's security."
Weiss, Thomas G., ed. Collective Security in a Changing World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993.
According to Forsberg, MISR/Supplement to ISQ 38, Supp. 1, this book "explores the normative and legal bases for collective security.... The recent burst of 'micronationalism' thus counterpoises the modern right of people to self-determination against the traditional territorial integrity of states." This is a "timely, broad-ranging primer."
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