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Stephen M. Duncan

Only the Most Able

Moving Beyond Politics in the Selection of National Security Leaders

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The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments. In Only the Most Able, Stephen M. Duncan draws on a lifetime of military, public service, executive, and legal experience to critique the political appointment process, focusing on departments that deal with national security-the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. He looks at how the current methods for making appointments put people in positions for which they are not qualified and not prepared. Rather, he argues, appointments should be made on the basis of one's qualifications and merits-t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4422-2022-5
  • EAN: 9781442220225
  • Produktnummer: 13382130
  • Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 625 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 625

Über den Autor


Stephen M. Duncan served as assistant secretary of defense in two presidential administrations and as the Pentagon's senior Drug War official. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran with more than forty years of active and reserve naval service and the recipient of two awards of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. He has been a senior executive in two defense industry technology companies, a federal criminal prosecutor, a partner in major law firms, and the Director of the Institute for Homeland Security Studies at the National Defense University. Duncan is the author of Citizen Warriors and A War of a Different Kind.

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