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Readings

Texts

Gaddis, John Lewis, Strategies of Containment, Oxford University Press, 1982.

Hays, Peter, Brenda Vallance, and Alan Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, Baltimore,Johns Hopkins, 1997.

Required Readings

"The ABCs of PPBS," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, pp. 228-233.

Adams, Gordon, "The Business of Defense," in Hays, Vallance, and Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 151-159.

Allan, Charles, "Extended Conventional Deterrence," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 329-348.

Allison, Graham and Morton Halperin, "Bureaucratic Politics: A Paradigm," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 25-32.

Art, Robert, "A Critique of Bureaucratic Politics," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 33-42.

Art, Robert, "To What Ends Military Power?," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 17-25.

Breemer, Jan, "The End of Naval Strategy," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 369-379.

Brustar, James, "Russiaand Neighbors," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 534-542.

Builder, Carl, "Service Identities and Behavior," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 108-121.

Burbach, David, "Nuclear Weapons Primer." Guest lecture, November 1997.

Charles, Nelson, "Keeping the Edge," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 206-212.

Churchill, Winston, "Iron Curtain Speech," The Times of London, March 6, 1946, 4.

Clinton, William, "Advancing Our Interests through Engagement and Enlargement," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 284-297.

Clinton, William, "Integrated Regional Approaches," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 508-513.

Cohen , Eliot, "The Mystique of Airpower," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 360-365.

Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community, "Preparing for the 21st Century," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 143-150.

Dalton, John, et al, "Forward...From the Sea," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 366-368.

Davis, Vincent, "Defense Reorganization and National Security," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 122-130.

Enthoven, Alain and Wayne Smith, "New Concepts and New Tools to Shape the Defense Program," in Richard Head and Ervin Rokke, American Defense Policy, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973, pp. 349-358.

Halloran, Richard, "Soldiers and Scribblers: A Common Mission, in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 160-169.

Hays, Peter, "Introduction to Part II," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 63-71.

Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, "What is American Defense Policy?" in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 8-17.

Holsti, Ole, "Crisis, Stress, and Decision Making," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 248-257.

Homeland Security Strategy 2002. (PDF - 2.6 MB)

Huntington, Samuel, "New Contingencies, Old Roles," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 393-396.

Janis, Iriving, "The Groupthink Syndrome," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 262-276.

Jamison, Linda, "Executive-Legislative Relations After the Cold War," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 93-100.

Jervis, Robert, "Hypotheses on Misperception," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 262-276.

Kartchner, Kerry, "The Objectives of Arms Control," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 423-429.

Kelleher, Catherine, "Presidents, Polls, and the Use of Force," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 170-180.

Kotz, Nick, "Wild Blue Yonder," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 213-226.

Larsen, Jeffrey and Gregory Tattray, "Existing Arms Control Treaties," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 430-441.

Larsen, Jeffrey and Gregory Tattray, "Ongoing Arms Control Negotiations," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 442-445.

Lewis, William, "Peacekeeping: The Deepening Debate," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 401-405.

Lindsay, James, "Congress and Defense Policy," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 81-92.

McCurdy, Dave, "Glasnost for the CIA," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 138-142.

Millot, Marc Dean, "Facing the Emerging Reality of Regional Nuclear Adversaries," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 453-470.

Molander, Roger and Peter Wilson, "On Dealing with the Prospect of Nuclear Chaos," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 316-328.

Montaperto, Ronald, "Asia Pacific," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 514-522.

Morrison, James, et al., "Europe," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 523-533.

National Commission on Terrorism, Countering the Changing Threat, 2000.

Neustadt, Richard, "The President's Power to Pursuade," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 73-80.

N-I-E 11-4-78 Soviet Goals and Expectations in the Global Power Arena (PDF).

Nunn, Sam, "Domestic Missions for the Armed Forces," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 397-400.

Peterson, Peter and James Sebenius, "The Primacy of the Domestic Agenda," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 54-62.

Rattray, Gregory, "Introduction to Arms Control," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 418-422.

Reagan SDI Speech, 1982. (PDF)

Rice, Donald, "Global Reach -- Global Power," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 350-356.

Sanders Sol, and William Henderson, "The Consequences of 'Vietnam'," Orbis 21.1, Spring 1977, pp. 61-76.

Scalingi, Paula, "U.S. Intelligence in and Age of Uncertainty," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 131-137.

Schlesenger, James, "The Office of the Secretary of Defense," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 101-108.

Schlesinger, James, "The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 312-315.

Seewall, Sarah, "Peace Operations: A Department of Defense Perspective," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 406-416.

Shalikashvili, John, "The National Military Strategy of the USA," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 298-310.

Skelton, Ike, "Joint and Combined Operations," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 380-386.

Snow, Donald, "National Security in a World of Tiers," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 44-53.

Snyder, Jed, et al., "Greater Middle East," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 543-554.

Stiner, Carl, "US Special Operations Forces," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 388-392.

Tassel, Van, "Introduction," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 3-7.

Tower, John, Brent Scowcroft, and Edmund Muskie, "Organizing for National Security," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 185-188.

Tower, John, Brent Scowcroft, and Edmund Muskie, "The Iran-Contra Affair," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1968, pp. 189-203.

Vallance, "Introduction," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 503-506.

The War Powers Resolution 1973. (PDF).

Widnall, Sheila, and Ronald Fogelman, "Global Presence," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 357-359.

Wilson, Heather, "Missed Opportunities: Washington Politics and Nuclear Proliferation," in Hays, Vallance, and Van Tassel, American Defense Policy, 1997, pp. 446-452.

Suggested Readings

Allison, Graham T., "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," American Political Science Review, September 1969, pp. 689-718.

Brzezinski, Z., Power and Principle.

Christensen, Thomas J., "Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World," Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 32-76.

Garthoff, Raymond, "Opening an Era of Negotiation: SALT I, 1969-72," Chapter 5 in Détente and Confrontation, Washington DC: Brookings.

Gelb, Leslie and Richard Betts, The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1979.

Gholz, Eugene, Daryl Press and Harvey Sapolsky, "Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation," International Security, vol. 21, no.4, Spring, 1997, pp. 5-48.

Haig, Al, Caveat, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984.

Halperin, Morton, "Organizational Interests," Chapter 3 in Bureaucratic Politics & Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, 1974.

Halperin, Morton, "The Decision to Deploy the ABM: Bureaucratic and Domestic Politics in the Johnson Administration," in Richard Head and Ervin Rokke, American Defense Policy, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973, pp. 466-486.

Johnson, Lyndon, "Vietnam", Chapters 6 and 11 in The Vantage Point, New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Kennedy, Robert, Thirteen Days.

Kurth, James, "A Widening Gyre: The Logic of American Weapons Procurement," Public Policy, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer, 1971, pp. 373-404.

Lars-Erik, Nelson, "Fantasia," The New York Review of Books, May 11, 2001.

Lieut., USN Res. David R. Hall, "The Constitution and Presidential War Making against Libya," Naval War College Review, vol. XLII, no. 3, Summer 1989, pp. 30-45.

May, Ernest, "National Security in American History," Chapter 3 in Graham Allison and Gregory Treverton, Rethinking America's Security, NY, WW Norton.

McNamara, Robert, "The No-Cities Doctrine," in The Uses of Force, pp. 148-149.

Nye, Jr., Joseph, "The Case for Deep Engagement," Foreign Affairs 74.4, Jul/Aug, 1995, pp. 90-102.

Posen, Barry and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," International Security, Vol. 21, Winter 1996/97, pp. 5-53.

Ruggie, John Gerard, "The Past as Prologue? Interests, Identity, and American Foreign Policy," International Security, 21.4 Spring 1997, pp. 89-125.

Simon, Steven, and Daniel Benjamin, "America & the New Terrorism," Survival, Vol. 42, No.1, Spring 2000, pp. 59-75.

Talbott, Strobe, "SDI During the Reagan Years, " Chapter 2 in Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and James Shear, On the Defensive? The Future of SDI, University Press of America, 1988.

X, "Sources of Soviet Conduct" Foreign Affairs, July 1947, pp. 566-582.