The Art of War in the Age of Peace: U.S. Military Posture for the Post-Cold War World

by Michael E. O'Hanlon

This study begins with a set of strategic assumptions--most notably that the risks of U.S.-Russian war are and will remain extremely low and that the U.S. military remains a stabilizing influence in many geographic theaters. O'Hanlon then shows that the United States' interests in the Third World, while nowhere truly vital, are sufficiently important to justify a measured degree of global military presence and engagement. Historical, political,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275942597
• ISBN13: 9780275942595
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"