Synopses & Reviews
He is still, at an age I won't try to guess, just as capable of articulate economical language and perceptive analysis as when I first met him at RAND. Instead of enjoying the comfortable retirement he deserves, he has provided us with a personal history of U.S. nuclear strategy from the same keen point of view that I had seen displayed long ago.
Thomas C. Schelling
[Kent] has done more to illuminate the decision process on key Department of Defense issues through analysis than any other individual.... He has also induced a variety of senior military leaders and civilian officials (including me) to think more clearly and decide issues more rationally.
Harold Brown
Synopsis
Over his 33 years in the Air Force and more than 20 years at RAND, Lt Gen
Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developer of American defense
policy. In this volume, he offers not so much a memoir in the normal sense
as a summary of the dozens of national security issues in which he was
personally engaged during his long career. In the process, he describes the
related analytical frameworks and illustrates the bureaucratic intricacies.