Thinking About America's Defense

By Kent, Glenn A.

Subjects: Military planning, Officers, United States, United states, military policy, Defenses, Biography, United States. Air Force, United states, air force, National security, united states, Military policy, Generals, biography, National security, Decision making, Strategic forces, united states, Strategic forces, Generals, United states, defenses

Description: Over his 33 years in the Air Force and more than 20 years at RAND, Lt GenGlenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defensepolicy. In this volume, he offers not so much a memoir in the normal senseas a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which he waspersonally engaged during his long career. In the process, he describes therelated analytical frameworks and illustrates the bureaucratic intricacies.