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Intro -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Peter Dombrowski -- Part I: U.S. Policies and Programs -- 1. Addressing the Missile Threat: 1980-2008 / Susan J. Koch -- 2. U.S. National Missile Defense Policy / James M. Acton -- 3. Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Concepts / Amy F. Woolf -- 4. Technical Controversy: Can Missile Defense Work? / George N. Lewis -- 5. Congress and Missile Defense / Nancy W. Gallagher -- Part II: Regional Dynamics -- 6. Europe and Missile Defense / Gustav Lindstrom -- 7. Postcrisis Perspectives: The Prospects for Cooperation among the United States, NATO, and Russia on Ballistic Missile Defense / Vladimir Dvorkin -- 8. From Dream to Reality: Israel and Missile Defense / Ariel Levite and Shlomo Brom -- 9: Ballistic Missile Defense Cooperation in the Arabian Gulf / Michael Elleman and Wafa Alsayed -- 10. Ballistic Missile Defense in South Asia / Andrew C. Winner -- 11. Chinese Attitudes Toward Missile Defense / Christopher P. Twomey and Michael S. Chase -- 12: Japan's Ballistic Missile Defense and "Proactive Pacifism" / Saadia M. Pekkanen -- Part III: Critical Global Analyses -- 13. Strategic Dead End or Game Changer? / Brad H. Roberts -- 14. Evaluating the Opportunity and Financial Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense / Dov S. Zakhelm -- Conclusion: The Future of Ballistic Missile Defense / Peter Dombrowski and Catherine McArdle Kelleher -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration t

Addressing the missile threat 1980-2008 / Susan J. Koch -- U.S. national missile defense policy / James M. Acton -- Theater ballistic missile defense concepts / Amy F. Woolf -- Technical controversy : can missile defense work? / George N. Lewis -- Congress and missile defense / Nancy W. Gallagher -- Europe and missile defense / Gustav Lindstrom -- Postcrisis perspectives : the prospects for cooperation among the United States, NATO and Russia on ballistic missile defense / Vladimir Dvorkin -- From dream to reality : Israel and missile defense / Ariel Levite and Shlomo Brom -- Ballistic missile defense cooperation in the Arabian Gulf / Michael Elleman and Wafa Alsayed -- Ballistic missile defense in South Asia / Andrew Winner -- Chinese attitudes toward missile defense / Christopher P. Twomey and Michael S. Chase -- Japan's ballistic missile defense and "proactive pacifism" / Saadia M. Pekkanen -- Strategic dead end or game changer? / Brad H. Roberts -- Evaluating the opportunity and financial costs of missile defense / Dov S. Zakheim -- Conclusion : the future of ballistic missile defense / Peter Dombrowski and Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Toward a balance sheet : what, why, and how / John S. Duffield and Peter J. Dombrowski -- The Iraq War and the war on terror : the global jihad after Iraq / Steven Simon -- The Iraq War and the failure of U.S. counterproliferation strategy / Joseph Cirincione -- The Iraq War and American national security interests in the Middle East / F. Gregory Gause III -- The Iraq War and the state of the U.S. military / Michael E. O'Hanlon -- The international political costs of the Iraq War / Thomas G. Weiss -- The Iraq War and U.S. public opinion / Clay Ramsay -- Are we safer now? / Peter J. Dombrowski and John S. Duffield

Judged against the expectations created by President Bush and his defense team, the Navy's transformation enterprise falls short. However, no compelling strategic rationale for military transformation has yet been articulated. A revolution in military affairs is not required for the maintenance of U.S. military dominance specifically or American primacy generally, or for fighting and winning the global war on terror.