Product Description: As the time approaches for what could well be President Clinton's decision to deploy a national missile defense, this report reviews where the current program and policies are taking the nation. It is as important to avoid a premature deployment that would embarrass proponents as it is to move expeditiously to a useful defense...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume details a possible derailment and train wreck in U.S. defense spending. Today the Department of Defense faces annual budget shortfalls of $100 billion--far more than the much discusses $5-$25 billion. If actions are not taken now to prevent this train wreck, future presidents and congresses will have little time to fix a disaster that will be far more costly than necessary...read more

Product Description: The vast majority of submarine and undersea warfare analysis since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has focused on near-term trends and issues. This report provides a reassessment or "new look" at the meaning of sea power at the dawn of a new century and at the contributions of modern sea power to U...read more

Product Description: This volume suggests that modern air and space power will be the central building block of a new strategic paradigm. The authors argue that the combination of reach, speed, striking power, survivability, and information superiority conferred by air and space power today favors a "vertical" perspective on the conduct of war over the classic, terrain-bound, "horizontal" perspective...read more