Security in a Changing World : Case Studies in U. S. National Security Management.

Cover -- Security in a Changing World -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- NOTES -- I Leadership and Accountability -- 2 From Turbulence to Tragedy: The Crash of Ron Brown's Flight in Croatia -- THE LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY CONTEXT -- Accountability: To Whom? -- Accountability: For What? -- SPECIAL AIRLIFT MISSIONS: THE CONDITIONS IN EUROPE -- THE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE: REQUESTING THE WAIVER -- THE MISSION AND THE CREW -- THE FLIGHT -- THE INVESTIGATION -- ACHIEVING ACCOUNTABILITY: AIR FORCE ACTIONS TO IMPLEMENT INVESTIGATION FINDINGS -- Accountability to Sources External to the Air Force -- Accountability to Sources Internal to the Air Force -- APPENDIX I -- THE E-MAIL TRAIL -- APPENDIX II -- GLOSSARY -- APPENDIX III -- REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS -- NOTES -- 3 The Battle to Destroy Chemical Weapons -- BACKGROUND AND SETTING -- THE DECISION TO DESTROY -- ENTER JOHN SHANNON -- CRYOFRACTURE -- SUSAN LIVINGSTONE TAKES OVER -- A PRESIDENTIAL PERTURBATION -- THE DEADLINE CRUNCH -- CONTAINING COSTS -- OWEN TAKES HIS TURN -- GIL DECKER GETS THE CALL -- THE STATE AND LOCAL FRONT -- NOTES -- 4 Changing Course: Admiral James Watkins and the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex -- THE PRESIDENT CALLS -- THE DOE WEAPONS COMPLEX -- ADMIRAL JAMES WATKINS -- CONFIRMATION -- ASSEMBLING A TEAM -- INITIAL ACTIONS -- THE ROCKY FLATS RAID -- POWERING REFORM -- CONFRONTING BARRIERS -- SHIFTING PRIORITIES -- PRESSURES FROM DOD -- THE NEW PRODUCTION REACTOR -- SAVANNAH RIVER TROUBLES -- THE CLEAN-UP FRONT -- THE COLD WAR ENDS AT DOE -- THE WATKINS CHAPTER CLOSES -- NOTES -- II Civil-Military and Military-Media Relations -- 5 Generals versus the President: Eisenhower and the Army, 1953-1955 -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- NOTES.

6 "Rotation from Hell": The 48th Infantry Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard in Desert Shield/Desert Storm -- FIFTY-SIX DAYS AT THE NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER -- A LEGACY OF MISTRUST -- INVESTIGATIONS AND CONTROVERSY -- ALL THAT THEY COULD BE? MANPOWER IN THE 48th BRIGADE -- THE LINGERING FEUD -- NOTES -- 7 Burned by the Press: One Commander's Experience -- DATELINE: BOSNIA -- THE INVESTIGATION -- GROUND RULES: AN UNWRITTEN CONTRACT -- THE AFTERMATH I: THE END OF A CAREER -- THE AFTERMATH II: THE MEDIA-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP -- NOTES -- III Technology and Industrial Policy -- 8 Breaking the Market or Preventing Market Breakdown: The Technology Reinvestment Project -- ORIGINS OF TRP -- THE TECHNOLOGY REINVESTMENT PROJECT -- WHY GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP? -- SEMATECH -- BART -- NOTES -- 9 Searching for a Safer Technology: Army-Community Conflict in Chemical Weapons Destruction -- DIALOGUE -- BACKGROUND AND SETTING -- ORIGINS OF THE ARMY-CITIZEN CONFLICT: KENTUCKY -- THE MARYLAND OPPOSITION -- KENTUCKY CHANGES STRATEGY -- THE MARYLAND FRONT -- THE ARMY LOOKS AT NEUTRALIZATION -- DECKER TAKES CHARGE -- THE NEUTRALIZATION DECISION -- THE ASSEMBLED WEAPONS DECISION -- THE ASSEMBLED CHEMICAL WEAPONS ASSESSMENT (ACWA) PROGRAM -- ESTABLISHING A DIALOGUE -- NOTES -- IV Resource Management (Exercises) -- 10 Four Days in December -- SCENARIO -- DESCRIPTION OF THE EXERCISE -- THE CANDIDATE'S BASIC CAMPAIGN SPEECH -- Note for Local Campaign Coordinators -- THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF -- Memorandum for National Security Transition Team -- THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF -- Guidance to the National Defense Transition Team -- DEFENSE PROGRAM GUIDANCE: NATIONAL SECURITY IN TODAY'S WORLD -- THE NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY -- PLANNING GUIDANCE -- People -- Forces -- Tactics and Doctrine.

Weapon Systems Modernization -- Maintaining the Technological Edge -- Readiness -- 11 Nationland -- INTRODUCTION -- GAME BACKGROUND/COUNTRY DESCRIPTION -- NATIONLAND I -- National Security Policy and Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces -- MEMORANDUM -- NATIONLAND II -- National Priorities -- NATIONLAND III -- The Defense Budget -- The Nationland Defense Budget -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.

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