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✍ Scribed by Review by: Eliot A. Cohen

• Book ID: 124208074
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20049762

✦ Synopsis

Recent Books a defense study that proposes modest cuts in military spending based on an all-too-familiar recipe: a high/low mix of weapon systems (similar to the combina tion of expensive, high-performance F-15 jets and the cheaper F-i6s in the past); smaller hardware purchases; and prudent research that stops short of weapons acqui sition. But unlike in previous works with a similar approach, the author takes aim at the debate over the so-called revolution in military affairs (rma). In this polemic