The crisis within America's military and the struggle between the overseas and guardian paradigms
"Today's U.S. military is full of perplexing questions and issues. Individually, each can be explained, but collectively the explanations seem too complicated. This complexity makes the military difficult to comprehend even to those in uniform. This report is an attempt to understand this...
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Santa Monica, Calif.
RAND Corporation
2016, [2016]©2016
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the Colonel's crisis
- Introduction
- Organized violence : the military's unique responsibility
- Thomas Kuhn on problems, paradigms, anomalies, and paradigm shifts
- The common defense and the continental paradigm
- The common defense and the overseas paradigm
- The Second World War validates the overseas paradigm
- The overseas paradigm : accounting for the Second World War's anomalies
- The overseas paradigm : accounting for additional anomalies, 1950-1975
- The overseas paradigm : conflicting signals, 1975-2001
- Inconsistencies in the overseas paradigm : the post-9/11 era
- Crisis and the overseas paradigm
- Rise of the guardian paradigm?
- Possible implications of a paradigm change
- Epilogue: the Colonel's retirement speech
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-62)