U.S. global defense posture, 1783-2011
This monograph describes the evolution of the U.S. global defense posture from 1783 to the present as the nation grew from a relatively weak and insular regional power into the preeminent global power. As new and unpredictable threats emerge, alliance relationships are revised, and resources decline...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Santa Monica, CA :
RAND Corporation
2012.
|
| Series: | Gale eBooks
|
| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433085606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Framework for U.S. posture
- Extent of the U.S. overseas military presence
- Operational orientation of American forces
- Continental defense, 1783-1815
- Continental defense and commercialism, 1815-1898
- Transition period, 1898-1905
- Oceanic posture
- Hemispheric defense (hemispheric anti-access/area denial)
- Perimeter defense in-depth, 1943-1949
- Consolidated defense-in-depth
- Transitioning from perimeter defense-in-depth to consolidated defense-in-depth
- Expeditionary defense-in-depth
- Comparing the GDPR to perimeter defense-in-depth
- Findings and recommendations
- Recommendations
- Concluding thoughts.
