National Security Dilemmas Gray Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9781597972635

National Security DilemmasChallenges and Opportunities\nAuthor(s): Colin S. Gray, Paul Van Riper\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781597972635, 978-1597972635\nSynopsis\nA contemporary primer on the leading arguments about [url] national security, National Security Dilemmas addresses the major challenges and opportunities that are live-issue areas for American policymakers and strategists today. Colin S. Gray provides an in-depth analysis of a policy and strategy for deterrence; the long-term [url] bid to transform its armed forces' capabilities, with particular reference to strategic surprise, in the face of many great uncertainties; the difficulty of understanding and exploiting the challenge of revolutionary change in warfare; the problems posed by enemies who fight using irregular methods; and the awesome dilemmas for [url] policy over the options to wage preventive and preemptive [url] forty years' experience .