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Breaking with tradition, Admiral William Owens--vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the nation's foremost strategic thinkers--prescribes new roles and missions and revolutionary new ships and aircraft needed for a new Navy, and lets readers in on their planning.
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Admiral William Owens, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, evaluates military resistance to change and argues that failure to respond to shifting global imperatives can lead to the same disasters caution intends to prevent. Acknowledging the life and death qualities of military decisions, Owens goes on to survey the realities of deterrence in a single-superpower world, the use of military force overseas, military technology and coordination, operations, and his views for building a new navy that will effectively meet the challenges of the next millennium. Includes some charts and photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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