TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kent,Glenn A.
AU  - Ochmanek,David A.
AU  - Spirtas,Michael
AU  - Pirnie,Bruce
ED  - Project Air Force (U.S.)
TI  - Thinking about America's defense: an analytical memoir 
T2  - Occasional paper
SN  - 9780833048622
AV  - U153 .K466 2008
U1  - 355/.033073 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Santa Monica, Calif.
PB  - Rand
KW  - United States
KW  - Air Force
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Officiers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Military planning
KW  - Generals
KW  - Strategic forces
KW  - National security
KW  - Planification militaire
KW  - Généraux
KW  - Forces stratégiques
KW  - TECHNOLOGY
KW  - Military Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - International Security
KW  - General
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Military readiness
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Military Science - General
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Military & Naval Science
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - Defenses
KW  - Défense nationale
KW  - Prise de décision
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Project Air Force."; "Prepared for the United States Air Force."; Includes bibliographical references; Ch. 1: The single integrated operational plan -- ch. 2: Nuclear weapons: strategy and arms control -- ch. 3: Analysis, force planning, and the paradigm for modernizing -- ch. 4: Modernizing nuclear forces -- ch. 5: Modernizing conventional forces -- ch. 6: Analytical tools -- ch. 7: Summing up: Kent's maxims -- Chronology; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His 33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as one of the leading analysts at RAND. This volume is not a memoir in the normal sense but rather a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which Glenn was personally engaged over the course of his career. These issues included creating the single integrated operational plan (SIOP), leading DoD's official assessment of strategic defenses in the 1960s, developing and analyzing strategic nuclear arms control agreements, helping to bring new weapon systems to life, and many others. Each vignette describes the analytical frameworks and, where appropriate, the mathematical formulas and charts that Glenn developed and applied to gain insights into the issue at hand. The author also relates his roles in much of the bureaucratic pulling and hauling that occurred as issues were addressed within the government."--Publisher's website
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ER  -