Thinking About America's Defense

By Kent, Glenn A.

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

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.