CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
 
1. LIBERATION OR DOMINANCE?
The Ideology Of U.S. National Security Policy
ARNOLD A. OFFNER
2. VARIATIONS ON THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
JAMES KURTH
3. THE POLITICS OF CONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL AGE
GEORGE H. QUESTER
4. SHIELD AND SWORD
U.S. Strategic Forces and Doctrine Since 1945
TAMI DAVIS BIDDLE
5. ELUSIVE BARGAIN
The Pattern of U.S. Civil-Military Relations Since World War II
ANDREW J. BACEVICH
6. THE EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Ubiquitous and Endless
ANNA KASTEN NELSON
7. INTELLIGENCE FOR EMPIRE
JOHN PRADOS
8. THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Lobby and Trope
ALEX ROLAND
9. PAYING FOR GLOBAL POWER
Costs and benefits of Postwar U.S. military Spending
BENJAMIN O. FORDHAM
10. THE CHANGING MORAL CONTRACT FOR MILITARY SERVICE
JAMES BURK
11. AMERICAN INSECURITY
Dissent from the “Long War”
CHARLES CHATFIELD
12. THE “GOOD” WAR
National Security and American Culture
WILLIAM L. O’NEILL
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX