Contents

         Preface

— PART I —

AIR FORCE OFFICER

  1.   Junction City

  2.   Surviving Hell on the Hudson

  3.   Crash Landing

  4.   Soldier-Scholar

  5.   Blue Suiter

— PART II —

THE NIXON AND FORD ADMINISTRATIONS, 1972–1977

  6.   Military Assistant to the President

  7.   Kissinger’s Deputy

  8.   White House Under Siege

  9.   SALT, Détente, and the Intelligence Wars of the Seventies

10.   Managing Failure: The Last Days of Vietnam

11.   We Mean Business

12.   National Security Advisor

13.   The Fixer

— PART III —

THE CARTER AND REAGAN YEARS, 1977–1989

14.   Out on the Street

15.   The Scowcroft Commission

16.   A Watergate-Type Problem

— PART IV —

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, 1989–1993

17.   Organizing Security

18.   The Pause: Preparing for Change

19.   Gardening in a Tempest

20.   Cold War Relics: Upheaval in Panama, Trouble in Afghanistan

21.   Blood on the Stones

22.   One Germany

23.   On-Ramp

24.   War in the Gulf

25.   End of Empire

26.   China Rising and the International Economy

27.   A New World Order—or the Resumption of History?

— PART V —

CITIZEN-STATESMAN

28.   An Independent Voice

29.   The Broken Process

30.   Elder Statesman

31.   The Strategist

         Brent Scowcroft: A Timeline

         Acknowledgments

         Source Notes

         Index

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