Volume 28, Number 9 · May 28, 1981
The Great Defense Deception
By James Fallows
The Defense Industry
by Jacques S. Gansler
MIT, 346 pp., $19.95
Defense Facts of Life
by Franklin C. Spinney
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), 56 pp., free
Report of the Defense Science Board 1980 Summer Study Panel on Industrial Responsiveness Engineering, Department of Defense
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
252 pp., free
Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration
by Desmond Ball
University of California Press, 348 pp., $27.50
Doubletalk: The Story of Salt I
by Gerard Smith
Doubleday, 556 pp., $17.95
The most important theme of President Reagan's proposals for defense has little to do with military strategies or concepts, but rather with sheer quantities: the budget stands for more. The administration's program is the clearest possible expression of a faith that spending more money for defense, without being particular about where or how, will make the nation more secure.
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