Condition: Old new stock, expect an item that may have been in stock for some time which is undamaged, with minimal wear perhaps some slight spotting or foxing and minimal fading to the cover, see pictures.
Fully returnable if unhappy with the condition.
First edition.
The end of the Cold War led to major reductions in the military might of the former adversaries. Although the United States was reducing its 2.2 million active-duty force to about 1.4 million and a yearly defence budget of $300 billion to about $250 billion, the Clinton administration pledged that this force would remain "the best-equiped, trained, and prepared in the world". The author warned that, unless the US took powerful remedial action, this pledge would not be met. The events of 9/11/2001 and the second Gulf War, put his views, written in 1995, into stark relief
