Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security StrategyWilliam Walton Keller, Gordon R. Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Pre, 3 сент. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 360 The U.S. war in Iraq was not only an intelligence failure—it was a failure in democratic discourse. Hitting First offers a critical analysis of the political dialogue leading up to the American embrace of preventive war as national policy and as the rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Taking as its point of departure the important distinction between preemptive and preventive war, the contributors examine how the rhetoric of policy makers conflated these two very different concepts until the public could no longer effectively distinguish between a war of necessity and a war of choice. Although the book focuses on recent events, Hitting First takes into consideration the broader historical, ethical, and legal context of current American policies. Precedents are examined for preventive military action based on conventional as well as nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons threats. The authors also consider recent examples of the rhetoric of “humanitarian intervention,” which have tended to undermine traditional notions of national sovereignty, making purportedly “morally justifiable” actions easier to entertain. Intelligence gathering and its use, manipulation, and distortion to suit policy agendas are also analyzed, as are the realities of the application of military force, military requirements to sustain a policy of preventive war, and post-conflict reconstruction. Hitting First presents a timely and essential view of the lessons learned from the failures of the Iraqi conflict, and offers a framework for avoiding future policy breakdowns through a process of deliberative public and governmental debate within a free market of ideas. The critiques and prescriptions offered here provide a unique and valuable perspective on the challenges of formulating and conduct of national security policy while sustaining the principles and institutions of American democracy. This collection will appeal to students and scholars of American foreign policy, international relations, political communication, and ethics. |
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... weapons of mass destruction ” can be traced to a 1948 resolution passed by the UN Commission for Conventional Arma ... nuclear , and radiological weapons . ' This semantic leveling obscures the fact that each class of weapons falling ...
... weapons in a single WMD category elevates the status of both biological and ... nuclear weaponry enacted by the acronym “ WMD ” frames public understanding ... nuclear threat categories plays out at the seam connecting the intelligence ...
... weapons programs in World War II ; Israeli and Iranian at- tacks on the Iraqi nuclear program from 1979 to 1981 ; Iraq's Scud attacks on Israel's nuclear program ( during Operation Desert Storm ) and Iran's nuclear and chemical ...
... weapons activity was discounted ; 82 a British dossier on Iraq's terror links proved to be drawn from a plagiarized graduate student paper ; 83 Iraq's aluminum tube imports were judged by International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) ...
... Nuclear , Biological , and Chemical Weapons Programs THE TRACK RECORD DAN REITER 2 T HE SEPTEMBER 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States of America ( NSS 2002 ) declared a heightened risk of attack by “ rogue and ...
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Chapter10 | 199 |
Chapter11 | 217 |
Chapter12 | 239 |
Notes | 265 |
References | 315 |
Contributors | 347 |
Index | 351 |
Back Cover | 361 |
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