WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS, Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today,
by Donald Kagan & Frederick W Kagan
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About This Item
St Martin's Press, publishers, New York - first edition 2000 hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dusy jacket AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket The Kagans begin by retracing Britain's international and defense policies leading up to World War Two, concluding that Britain was unwilling to face the responsibilities on which their security depended. Then they assess the United States today, finding remarkable parellels with the UK. Everything is banked on high-tech 'smart' weapons, they find, as opposed to long-term commitment of money, personnel, and planning that the deterrence of a major war would require
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- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36593
- Title
- WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS, Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today,
- Author
- Donald Kagan & Frederick W Kagan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dusy jacket
- Book Condition
- New AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press, publishers, New York - first edition
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 484 pages
- Keywords
- Military and War US United States Armed Services personnel Policy Foreign Relations Great Britain Military History
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