Full Description
This text assesses the likely roles of US military forces in the international environment of the 21st century and how military roles and missions might be best allocated among the armed services to create a flexible, cost-effective force able to support U.S. national interests. It focuses on the basic functions of the armed forces (for example, defence of the homeland, projection of power abroad and peacekeeping and humanitarian operations) and shows, with an illustrative force posture, how military capabilities might best be adjusted to meet the country's defence and foreign policy needs in the decades ahead.
Contents
Foreword; M.Krepon - Preface - The History of Roles and Missions: Forty-Five years of Squaring the Circle; S.A.Wolfe - American Interests and Military Power; B.M.Blechman - Boundaries of Choice: Domestic Constraints on Decisions Affecting U.S. Armed Forces; W.J.Durch & P.L.Reed - Military Technology: Options for the Future; V.A.Utgoff - Protecting the Homeland; W.J.Durch - Contingency Forces to Protect U.S.Interests Abroad; V.A.Utgoff - Hedging Against Future Threats:Planning for a Need to Rapidly Reconstitute Larger Forces; D.R.Graham - Forces for Peacekeeping, Peace Enforcement, and Humanitarian Missions; J.H.Henshaw - Conclusions:Reorganizing the Department of Defense for the Twenty-first Century - Index
