The end of the Cold War has brought about significant changes in the political, economic, social, and cultural structure of the international system. Absent a distinct enemy and the threat of global thermonuclear war, the United States today faces a host of new security challenges that require policymakers to make difficult decisions with significant domestic and international implications. The range of conflicting goals, expectations, and capabilities demands fresh solutions to international conflicts and civil unrest, new strategies for conducting peace support operations, and the preparation of America's forces for completing operational assignments under increasingly uncertain conditions. The case studies and exercises constructed for this book examine some of the most pertinent management, leadership, and accountability issues related to U.S. national security. Each case places readers at the center of difficult decisions, illustrates more general policy dilemmas, and is designed to stimulate discussion of those issues beyond the classroom. Cases highlight dilemmas at two levels: pertaining specifically to the case and pertaining to its larger policy implications.
The absence of a one-sided argument, specific policy recommendations, or "logical" conclusions, enables readers to recognize the importance of the issues at hand and their greater policy implications and to discern lessons that might apply more generally to public policy, administration, and management. Particularly useful in courses dealing with national security, international relations, public/policy administration, civil-military relations, and organizational management. An instructor's manual is available upon request.
The end of the Cold War has brought about significant changes in the political, economic, social, and cultural structure of the international system. Absent a distinct enemy and the threat of global thermonuclear war, the United States today faces a host of new security challenges that require policymakers to make difficult decisions with significant domestic and international implications. The range of conflicting goals, expectations, and capabilities demands fresh solutions to international conflicts and civil unrest, new strategies for conducting peace support operations, and the preparation of America's forces for completing operational assignments under increasingly uncertain conditions. The case studies and exercises constructed for this book examine some of the most pertinent management, leadership, and accountability issues related to U.S. national security. Each case places readers at the center of difficult decisions, illustrates more general policy dilemmas, and is designed to stimulate discussion of those issues beyond the classroom. Cases highlight dilemmas at two levels: pertaining specifically to the case and pertaining to its larger policy implications.
The absence of a one-sided argument, specific policy recommendations, or "logical" conclusions, enables readers to recognize the importance of the issues at hand and their greater policy implications and to discern lessons that might apply more generally to public policy, administration, and management. Particularly useful in courses dealing with national security, international relations, public/policy administration, civil-military relations, and organizational management. An instructor's manual is available upon request.
Examines some of the most pertinent management, leadership, and accountability issues related to U.S. national security.
Preface
Introduction
Leadership and Accountability
From Turbulence to Tragedy: The Crash of Ron Brown's Flight in
Croatia by Patricia Ingraham and Barbara Romzek
The Battle to Destroy Chemical Weapons by W. Henry Lambright
Changing Course: Admiral Watkins and the DOE Nuclear Complex by W.
Henry Lambright
Civil-Military and Military-Media Relations
Generals Versus the President: Eisenhower and the Army, 1953-1955
by Andrew Bacevich
Rotation from Hell: The 48th Infantry Brigade, Georgia Army
National Guard in Desert Shield/Storm by Eliot Cohen
Burned by the Press: One Commander's Experience by Richard J.
Newman
Technology and Industrial Policy
Breaking the Market or Preventing Market Breakdown: The Technology
Reinvestment Project by Sean O'Keefe and Volker Franke
Searching for a Safer Technology: Army-Community Conflict in
Chemical Weapons Destruction by W. Henry Lambright
Resource Management
Four Days in December by L. Paul Dube
Nationland by James Blandin and Sean O'Keefe
VOLKER C. FRANKE is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at McDaniel College.
?Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, these descriptions of
eight case studies and two military exercises are presented to help
prepare defense executives and senior military officers for a
changing global security context.?-Reference & Research Book
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"Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, these descriptions of
eight case studies and two military exercises are presented to help
prepare defense executives and senior military officers for a
changing global security context."-Reference & Research Book News
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