SECDEF: the nearly impossible job of Secretary of Defense
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Main Author: Stevenson, Charles A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. Potomac Books ©2006
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index
PART 1. BACKGROUND AND EVOLUTION OF THE OFFICE: 1. The nearly impossible job ; 2. Cemetery for dead cats -- PART 2. POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES: THE REVOLUTIONARIES: 3. McNamara: The numbers of power ; 4. Schlesinger: The independence of ideas ; 5. Weinberger: The power of tenacity ; THE FIREFIGHTERS: 6. Laird: The power of politics ; 7. Aspin: The politics of failure ; 8. Cohen: The politics of defense ; THE TEAM PLAYERS: 9. Brown: The technology of power ; 10. Cheney: The power of decisiveness ; 11. Perry: The power of decency ; 12. The Rumsfeld transformation -- PART 3. ROLES AND PERFORMANCES: 13. Manager of the Pentagon ; 14. War Planner ; 15. Diplomat ; 16. NSC Advisor ; 17. Successes and Failures -- Appendix A. Secretaries of Defense -- Appendix B. Foreign travel by Secretaries of Defense
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 249 pages)
ISBN:1574887947
1574887955
1612342795
9781574887945
9781574887952
9781612342795

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