Salvaging American Defense The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch

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• Political Science » International Relations
• Military Studies » U.S. Armed Forces
• Military Studies » Military & Politics
• Political Science » American Politics/Government

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• Asserting that the United States needs to adapt to the "long war" against international terrorism, the authors argue that it must do this at same time that it must cope with a host of other issues. They identify ten major types of challenge that require attention over the coming decade and offer their judgments on the available options. Those challenges include the strain of the Iraq occupation on US armed forces, determining the level of financial burden of national defense, meeting the needs of the active and reserve military, measuring the extent that the US has too few forces or forces in the wrong areas, determining what kind of force transformation is affordable and needed, abandoning unaffordable force transformation efforts, creating effective national security interagency capability, creating effective local (Iraqi) forces, reshaping alliance relationships, and finding ways to achieve policy maker accountability.
  —Reference & Research Book News August 2007