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China has achieved near superpower status in both the economic and military realms. The United States has reacted with a strategy of rebalancing, pivoting, toward Asia, and China. How the United States should execute this strategy to reassure China and the rest of Asia so that cooperation, not confrontation, governs the relationship between Washington and Beijing is the focus of this book.

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In this book, O'Hanlon and Graham analyse US official development assistance (ODA) to poor countries. The authors place US ODA in a broad historical, international, and economic perspective. They then recommend an alternative approach to ODA for the United States as well as other donors.

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In 2007 two former US secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously toward a nuclear-free world. This title presents the dangers of nuclear weapons and the advantages of disarmament as a goal.

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Argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. Michael O'Hanlon believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality.

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These are extraordinary times in U.S. national security policy. America remains engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan while facing a global economic downturn.

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This updated edition incorporates lessons from the war in Afghanistan, other developemnts since September 11, and a critical assessment of the Bush administration's defense strategy and budget plan, both of which were formulated and publicly unveiled after the release of the book's first edition.

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This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress.

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Leading foreign policy expert Michael OHanlon offers policy recommendations for strengthening the ability of Americas military to respond to international crises in a tumultuous world.

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Humanitarian military intervention and muscular peace operations have been partially effective in recent years in saving thousands of lives from the Balkans to Haiti to Somalia to Cambodia to Mozambique.

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Considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility during a period of prolonged economic stress and political acrimony - even as the world remains unsettled, from Afghanistan to Iran to Syria to the western Pacific region.

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Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years.

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Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be weaponized This incisive and insightful book argues that it should not.

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Taking advantage of an unusually wide open Presidential race, Opportunity 08 offers provocative and challenging recommendations on issues such as climate change, the budget deficit, energy security, health care, homeland security, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and dealing with China and Iran.

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Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing the nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions for the problems that matter most to the future of US society, prosperity, and the world.

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A good deal has been done to improve the safety of Americans on their own soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet there have been numerous setbacks.

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In light of the spectacular performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as well as the phenomenal pace of innovation in the modern computer industry, many defense analysts have posited that we are on the threshold of a revolution in military affairs (RMA).

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What issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and Russia or China And how could such a conflict be contained before it took the world to the brink of thermonuclear catastrophe, as was feared during the cold war Defense expert Michael O'Hanlon wrestles with these questions in this insightful book.

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Michael O'Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan have written a superb analysis of the current strategy in Afghanistan. It is an insightful work by two authors with exceptional knowledge and experience.

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The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand these and other essential problems in moder

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In 2007 two former US secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously toward a nuclear-free world. This title presents the dangers of nuclear weapons and the advantages of disarmament as a goal.

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As a new administration takes office, what are the biggest issues facing America The Brookings Institution offers answers to that question in this volume, which continues the Brookings tradition of providing each incoming administration with a non-partisan analysis of the major domestic and foreign questions confronting America.

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The United States spends a lot of money on defense: $607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing US responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president.

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Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution