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  Title

  While America sleeps : self-delusion, military weakness, and the threat to peace today 1st ed.

  Author

  Kagan, Donald.

  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Kagan, Donald.

  Title:

  While America sleeps : self-delusion, military weakness, and the threat to peace today / Donald Kagan, Frederick W. Kagan.

  Edition statement:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

  Physical description:

  ix, 483 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

  Content type:

  text

  Medium:

  unmediated

  Format:

  volume

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-468) and index.

  Contents:

  Pt. I. Britain Between the Wars -- 1. The Brave New World -- 2. Britain's Defense Dilemma -- 3. The First Challenge to Peace -- 4. The Paper Lion Roars -- 5. Retreat from Responsibility -- 6. The Search for Security -- 7. The Unraveling of Versailles -- 8. The Locarno Treaty -- 9. The Spirit of Locarno -- 10. The Bill Comes Due -- 11. The Price of Self-Deception -- Pt. II. The United States After the Cold War -- 12. The New World Order -- 13. The Peace Dividend -- 14. Increased Commitments, Reduced Forces -- 15. Kicking the Can Down the Road -- 16. Proliferation and Blackmail -- 17. Another Versailles -- 18. A Legacy of Half Measures.

  Summary:

  Traces Britain's international and defense policies in the years between World War I and II and studies how their self-delusion and unwillingness to face their responsibilities affected the world at the start of World War II.

  Subject term:

  National security--United States--Forecasting.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--1989-

  Geographic term:

  United States--Military policy.

  Geographic term:

  Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.

  Geographic term:

  Great Britain--History, Military--20th century.

  Added author:

  Kagan, Frederick W., 1970-

  LCCN:

  00031818

  ISBN:

  0312206240

  ISBN:

  9780312206246

  ISBN:

  0312283741 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780312283742 (pbk.)

  Collection note:

  Gift of:David Waddell. Date cataloged: 01/09/2020.

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  Personal Author:

  Kagan, Donald.

  Title:

  While America sleeps : self-delusion, military weakness, and the threat to peace today / Donald Kagan, Frederick W. Kagan.

  Edition statement:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

  Physical description:

  ix, 483 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

  Content type:

  text

  Medium:

  unmediated

  Format:

  volume

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-468) and index.

  Contents:

  Pt. I. Britain Between the Wars -- 1. The Brave New World -- 2. Britain's Defense Dilemma -- 3. The First Challenge to Peace -- 4. The Paper Lion Roars -- 5. Retreat from Responsibility -- 6. The Search for Security -- 7. The Unraveling of Versailles -- 8. The Locarno Treaty -- 9. The Spirit of Locarno -- 10. The Bill Comes Due -- 11. The Price of Self-Deception -- Pt. II. The United States After the Cold War -- 12. The New World Order -- 13. The Peace Dividend -- 14. Increased Commitments, Reduced Forces -- 15. Kicking the Can Down the Road -- 16. Proliferation and Blackmail -- 17. Another Versailles -- 18. A Legacy of Half Measures.

  Summary:

  Traces Britain's international and defense policies in the years between World War I and II and studies how their self-delusion and unwillingness to face their responsibilities affected the world at the start of World War II.

  Subject term:

  National security--United States--Forecasting.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--1989-

  Geographic term:

  United States--Military policy.

  Geographic term:

  Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.

  Geographic term:

  Great Britain--History, Military--20th century.

  Added author:

  Kagan, Frederick W., 1970-

  LCCN:

  00031818

  ISBN:

  0312206240

  ISBN:

  9780312206246

  ISBN:

  0312283741 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780312283742 (pbk.)

  Collection note:

  Gift of:David Waddell. Date cataloged: 01/09/2020.