Strategic Defense And The American Ethos
Strategic Defense And The American Ethos

Author: Michael Vlahos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1000313204

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The concept and utility of strategic defense should be evaluated in an embracing cultural context defined by the values, attitudes, and worldview of society—its ethos. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) responds both to changes in the American ethos and to shifts in the balance of power. Together, these changes have undermined the basis of U.S.

Strategic Defense and the American Ethos
Strategic Defense and the American Ethos

Author: Michael Vlahos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367304294

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This book links the larger cultural process from which strategic posture is ultimately derived to the utility of strategic defenses. If strategic defenses are a product of cultural pressures, they must also promote the goal of such pressures: enhanced national security. This is the promise of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience

Author: John Lewis Gaddis

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005-10-31

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780674018365

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In this provocative book, a distinguished Cold War historian argues that September 11, 2001, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy.

No Duty to Retreat
No Duty to Retreat

Author: Richard Maxwell Brown

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780806126180

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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what do the two events have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok’s. When faced with a deadly threat, we have the right to stand our ground and fight. We have no duty to retreat.

Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Author: K. Kartchner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0230618308

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This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.

Our American Ethos
Our American Ethos

Author: Jason M Ritchie

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 0595367259

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American Ethos is the idea that the achievement of mutually beneficial goals is the best way to grow our national unity and ensure our future as a free and democratic America. It is the prospect that we can establish basic ideals we all share as Americans - not based on a particular social value, special interest, partisan or local concern, but rather by looking at our country and our people as a whole group, not a collection of competing minorities. We must unify and move forward.