SECDEF : The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
2006.
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Édition: | 1st ed. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- PART 1. BACKGROUND AND EVOLUTION OF THE OFFICE: 1. The nearly impossible job ; 2. Cemetery for dead cats
- PART 2. POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES: THE REVOLUTIONARIES: 3. McNamara: The numbers of power ; 4. Schlesinger: The independence of ideas ; 5. Weinberger: The power of tenacity ; THE FIREFIGHTERS: 6. Laird: The power of politics ; 7. Aspin: The politics of failure ; 8. Cohen: The politics of defense ; THE TEAM PLAYERS: 9. Brown: The technology of power ; 10. Cheney: The power of decisiveness ; 11. Perry: The power of decency ; 12. The Rumsfeld transformation
- PART 3. ROLES AND PERFORMANCES: 13. Manager of the Pentagon ; 14. War Planner ; 15. Diplomat ; 16. NSC Advisor ; 17. Successes and Failures
- Appendix A. Secretaries of Defense
- Appendix B. Foreign travel by Secretaries of Defense.