The Revenge of the Melians

The Revenge of the Melians
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9780756707965
ISBN-13 : 075670796X
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Book Synopsis The Revenge of the Melians by : Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.

Download or read book The Revenge of the Melians written by Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is a product of the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2001 Working Group, a project of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Sponsored by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the working group is an independent, honest-broker effort intended to build intellectual capital for the upcoming QDR. More specifically, it aims to frame issues, develop options, and provide insights for the Chairman, the services, and the next administration in three areas: defense strategy, criteria for sizing conventional forces, and force structure for 2005-2010. One of the group's initial tasks was to assess the future security environment to the year 2025. This was pursued by surveying the available literature to identify areas of consensus and debate and by deepening knowledge of asymmetric threats to the United States both at home and abroad, given their potential appeal to likely adversaries in view of America's conventional military superiority. The essay that follows grew out of that latter effort and reflects a growing consensus that the issues posed by asymmetric threats should occupy a more prominent place in defense strategy and force planning. This essay makes a unique contribution to the growing literature on asymmetric threats by providing a conceptual framework for thinking about such threats, offering an approach to determining which threats should receive the greatest attention from defense planners, and suggesting concrete steps that the Nation should take to address them.


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