Arms Control, once a keystone of American foreign policy, has fallen out of favour with many U.S. policymakers. Yet it is needed more than ever, although in a different from. Levi and O’Hanlon underscore that future arms control must have cleaer priorities and focus on proliferation of the most dangerous technologies to the most dangerous actors. It must also provide early warning of violations, partly to allow coercive action to be considered in the event of ...
In this book, the author argues that America’s large defence budget cannot realistically be pared in the years ahead. But given the extreme demands of the Iraq mission, particularly on the US Army and Marine Corps, he suggests how reductions in various weapons modernization programs and other economies might free up enough funds to add at least 40,000 more ground troops to today’s military. He also reviews the military lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ...