05 November, 2008

I need to get this report

The title is America's Defense Meltdown, and I may use it in class.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Executive Summary
CHAPTER 1
Introduction and Historic Overview:
The Overburden of America’s Outdated Defenses
Lt. Col. John Sayen (U.S. Marine Corps, ret.)
CHAPTER 2
Shattering Illusions: A National Security Strategy for 2009-2017
Col. Chet Richards (U.S. Air Force, ret.)
CHAPTER 3
Leading the Human Dimension
Out of a Legacy of Failure
Col. G.I. Wilson (U.S. Marine Corps, ret.)andMaj. Donald Vandergriff (U.S. Army, ret.)
CHAPTER 4
Maneuver Forces: The Army and Marine Corps after Iraq
Col. Douglas Macgregor (U.S. Army, ret.)and Col. G.I. Wilson (U.S. Marine Corps, ret.)
CHAPTER 5
A Traveler’s Perspective on Third and Fourth Generation War
Mr. William S. Lind
CHAPTER 6
The Navy
Mr. William S. Lind
CHAPTER 7
Reversing the Decay of American Air Power
Col. Robert Dilger (U.S. Air Force, ret.) and Mr. Pierre M. Sprey
CHAPTER 8
Air Mobility Alternatives for a New Administration
Mr. James P. Stevenson
CHAPTER 9
The Army National
Guard, the Army Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve
Mr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
CHAPTER 10
Long in Coming, the Acquisition Train Wreck Is Here
Mr. Thomas Christie
CHAPTER 11
Understand, Then Contain America’s Out-of-Control Defense Budget
Mr. Winslow T. Wheeler

From the preface:

The vast majority, perhaps even all, of Congress, the general officer corps of the armedforces, top management of American defense manufacturers, prominent members ofWashington’s think-tank community and nationally recognized “defense journalists”will hate this book. They will likely also urge that it be ignored by both parties in Congressand especially by the new president and his incoming national security team. It is not just that following the recommendations of this book will mean the cancellation of numerous failing, unaffordable and ineffective defense programs, as well as the jobs, and more importantly careers, those programs enable. The acceptance of data and analysis presented in this book, and the conclusions and recommendations that flow from them, would require the elite of Washington’s national security community to acknowledge the many flaws in their analysis of weapons, Pentagon management and leadership of the nation in a tumultuous world. In too many cases, it would also require those elites to admit their own role in the virtual meltdown of America’s defenses.

I need a complete copy! I hear it should be out November 19th. The sections that are available can be found here.

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