Thinking About America's Defense

by Kent, Glenn A

Over his 33 years in the Air Force and more than 20 years at RAND, Lt GenGlenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defensepolicy. In this volume, he offers not so much a memoir in the normal senseas a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which he waspersonally engaged during his long career. In the process, he describes therelated analytical frameworks and illustrates the bureaucratic intricacies.