Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore. - Michael Green, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs National Security Council The Showdown to Come In 1995, during a heated discussion about that year's Taiwan crisis, a Chinese general remarked to a U.S. diplomat, ""In the end, you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei.""...
Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan ...
Reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress. Throughout the book, the author looks for ways to close the gap between the cost of projected US defense forces and the budget actually available to the Pentagon.
Reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress. Throughout the book, the author looks f...
This volume is a critique of the standard positions and hyperboles of both advocates and opponents of the Limited National Missile Defense System. It is also a primer on the types, advantages and limitations of various systems and architectures.
This volume is a critique of the standard positions and hyperboles of both advocates and opponents of the Limited National Missile Defense System. It ...
Based on interviews with many of the key participants in the Kosovo crisis of 1999, this book discusses the causes, conduct and consequences of the war. The authors conclude that the crisis holds important diplomatic and military lessons that must be learned.
Based on interviews with many of the key participants in the Kosovo crisis of 1999, this book discusses the causes, conduct and consequences of the wa...
In this new edition, the author critically assesses the Bush administration's defense strategy and budget plan. He also addresses the new military challenges faced by the administration after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Defense spending is now projected to increase to levels seen under the Reagan administration. Michael O'Hanlon suggests ways to deal with these defense demands while keeping the U.S. defense budget $30 to $40 billion below planned Bush administration levels.
In this new edition, the author critically assesses the Bush administration's defense strategy and budget plan. He also addresses the new military cha...
In light of the performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Gulf War, many defence analysts have posited that we are on the threshold of a revolution in military affairs and the conduct of war.
In light of the performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Gulf War, many defence analysts have posited that we are on the threshold ...
Despite worldwide internecine ethnic and political conflict, humanitarian intervention by the international community has been effective in several high-profile cases, helping save thousands of lives in Somalia and ending genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo. However, a sufficient capacity for multilateral humanitarian intervention does not yet exist. In this volume, Michael O'Hanlon presents a blueprint for saving lives through force. He suggests new ways of spreading the responsibility for intervention forces onto regional powers. Ultimately, hecontends, individual countries must develop the...
Despite worldwide internecine ethnic and political conflict, humanitarian intervention by the international community has been effective in several hi...
Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years. Unfortunately, they are at odds with each other. The balanced budget accord will result in a real level of defense spending that is 8 percent lower in 2002 than in 1998. But the proportionate cuts in personnel and weaponry that the QDR calls for are only about half that size. Moreover, the U.S. military is near the end of its so-called "procurement holiday" and will soon have to buy more equipment. In...
Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.S....
Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President's 1996 budget plan, it will decline by just as great a percentage as defense between 1990 and 2002--and by substantially more than defense over the 1980-2002 period. No other major category of federal spending will undergo a real cut over either time period. The shrinking budget, totaling about $19 billion in 1997, will still have to fund the State Department, international broadcasting and educational exchanges, trade subsidies and investment...
Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President's 1996...
Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal challenge. Based largely on recent U.S. experiences in Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and elsewhere, as well as on U.S. military doctrine and information from the Pentagon's training and simulation centers, the book discusses the steps in an intervention and estimates likely casualties and costs. O'Hanlon shows that modern Western militaries are capable of executing these types of operations with high...
Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose governm...
