00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004992 20221109034546 0010-0520004992 221109################|##########|#eng## 978-0-415-77266-2 eng 355.033 355.033 SAP u Sapolsky, Harvey M Eugene Gholz Caitlin Talmadge US Defense Politics : The Origins of Security Policy / Harvey M. Sapolsky, Eugene Gholz and Caitlin Talmadge New York : Routledge, 2009 xiv, 191 p. : : illus. ; 25 cm. Indeks : p.186-191 This book seeks to explain how US defense and national security policy is formulated and conducted. The focus is on the role of the President, Congress, political partisans, defense industries, lobbies, science, the media, and interest groups, including the military itself, in shaping policies. It examines the following key themes: US grand strategy; who joins America's military; how and why weapons are bought; the management of defense; public attitudes toward the military and casualties; the roles of the President and the Congress in controlling the military; the effects of 9/11 on security policy, homeland security, government reorganizations. The book shows how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy, and warns against the introduction of centralising reforms. National security - United States Civil-military relations - United States 13281/MKRI-P/XI-2009 13282/MKRI-P/XI-2009 13282/MKRI-P/XI-2009 13281/MKRI-P/XI-2009 13281/MKRI-P/XI-2009 13282/MKRI-P/XI-2009