cdi.org - 1/21/2009
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In a heretofore unpublished review of "America's Defense Meltdown," retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and former Chicago Tribune defense journalist David Evans points out the mountain of opposition that stands in the way of serious Pentagon reform - opposition that was at least as virulent ...
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Working for the Meltdown: Introduction
Obsidian Wings —
... I've recently completed an anthology edited by Winslow Wheeler entitled, America's Defense Meltdown, and the selections are, at least to this reader, illuminating. Each chapter is written by a different author (though some authors pen multiple chapters) and each such sub-unit takes on a separate facet of the overall mission. In its entirety, America's Defense Meltdown is an attempt to reexamine America's military heritage, its current and past priorities and strategies, and the interplay of entrenched defense-related interests with each of the foregoing, all ...
Working for the Meltdown: Introduction
Newshoggers.com —
... I've recently completed an anthology edited by Winslow Wheeler entitled, America's Defense Meltdown, and the selections are, at least to this reader, illuminating. Each chapter is written by a different author (though some authors pen multiple chapters) and each such sub-unit takes on a separate facet of the overall mission. In its entirety, America's Defense Meltdown is an attempt to reexamine America's military heritage, its current and past priorities and strategies, and the interplay of entrenched defense-related interests with each of the foregoing, all ...
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