Shaping U.S. Military Forces: Revolution or Relevance in a Post-Cold War World

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D. Robert Worley, \"Shaping U.S. Military Forces: Revolution or Relevance in a Post-Cold War World\"
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth | 2006 | ISBN 0275990311 | PDF | 312 pages | 1 MB

In Shaping U.S. Military Forces, D. Robert Worley assesses military force changes that have been made since the Cold War, explains the many changes that have not been made, and recommends changes that must be made--as well as exploring the ways in which political and military forces line up to resist them. For over forty years there was consensus about maintaining large U.S. military forces. Today, as evidenced by the steady decline in defense spending since 1985, that consensus has evaporated, and a new equilibrium is being sought. Yet evidence of transformation is modest. By outward appearances, today's military is principally a smaller version of our Cold War forces, despite the fact that threat, missions, and strategies have changed. There has been no lack of reform effort at the highest levels of the defense bureaucracy. Under the leadership of General Colin Powell, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reexamined the roles and missions of the services

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