Redesigning Society
Redesigning Society

Author: Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Publisher: Stanford Business Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Health care, education, welfare, law the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. In this new book Ackoff and Rovin examine a variety of these issues and use systems theory to develop solutions for many of the problems society currently faces."

Designing Defense for a New World Order
Designing Defense for a New World Order

Author: Earl C. Ravenal

Publisher: Cato Institute

Published: 1991-09-01

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1935308858

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A policy of global intervention, whereby we adopt every country's threats as our own, is the strategic premise of the Bush administration's post-Persian Gulf defense program, argues former Pentagon official Earl C. Ravenal. Ravenal's alternative defense budget, based on a strategy of noninterventionism, would save American taxpayers more than $300 billion over the next five years. It would also phase out such increasingly irrelevant cold-war-era commitments as those to NATO, Japan and South Korea. Given the nature of the emerging international system, what is needed is not a vain effort to impose a global Pax Americana but a new U.S. security strategy appropraite for a "nation among nations" in the post-cold-war era. Ravenal's incisive analysis is certain to stimulate debate on the U.S. defense strategy and America's role in the world.