CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. LIBERATION OR DOMINANCE?
The Ideology Of U.S. National Security Policy
A
RNOLD
A. O
FFNER
2. VARIATIONS ON THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
J
AMES
K
URTH
3. THE POLITICS OF CONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL AGE
G
EORGE
H. Q
UESTER
4. SHIELD AND SWORD
U.S. Strategic Forces and Doctrine Since 1945
T
AMI
D
AVIS
B
IDDLE
5. ELUSIVE BARGAIN
The Pattern of U.S. Civil-Military Relations Since World War II
A
NDREW
J. B
ACEVICH
6. THE EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Ubiquitous and Endless
A
NNA
K
ASTEN
N
ELSON
7. INTELLIGENCE FOR EMPIRE
J
OHN
P
RADOS
8. THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Lobby and Trope
A
LEX
R
OLAND
9. PAYING FOR GLOBAL POWER
Costs and benefits of Postwar U.S. military Spending
B
ENJAMIN
O. F
ORDHAM
10. THE CHANGING MORAL CONTRACT FOR MILITARY SERVICE
J
AMES
B
URK
11. AMERICAN INSECURITY
Dissent from the “Long War”
C
HARLES
C
HATFIELD
12. THE “GOOD” WAR
National Security and American Culture
W
ILLIAM
L. O’N
EILL
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX