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Harold Brown

Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned Over Six Decades Safeguarding America

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Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War.A physicist, Brown had previously led Livermore Laboratory and its development of the Polaris missile warhead. By age 33 he was director of Defense Research and Engineering, and he later served as secretary of the U.S. Air Force early in the Vietnam War.In the Carter administration, Brown reinvigorated the NATO alliance, promoted AWACs, increased U.S. conve… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Winslow, Joyce (Gespielt)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8157-3413-0
  • EAN: 9780815734130
  • Produktnummer: 24724848
  • Verlag: Brookings Inst
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 277 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 449 g
  • Gewicht: 449

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Harold Brown was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1977 to 1981. His unique, ongoing career spans science, academia, government, and the corporate sector over ten presidencies. He is currently trustee emeritus of the RAND Corporation and a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Joyce Winslow is a Washington journalist, op-ed editor, and a prize-winning fiction author in The Best American Short Story collection

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