Review of The Defense Reform Debate

In the public debate over defense issues, one of the striking developments of recent developments of recent years has been the emergence of a broad-based assault on U.S. conventional defense policies and practices. What is unusual about this assault is that it comes from members and supporters of the defense establishment, who are almost without exception proponents of augmenting U.S. defense capabilities, and not from the usual liberal critics who can be counted on to oppose much of what the Pentagon does and wants. This new breed of critic--found among civilian defense analysts, in the Congress, and in the defense establishment--accuses the Pentagon of a startling variety of deficiencies in matter large and small. Indeed, the collection of complaints amounts to a comprehensive indictment of contemporary U.S. defense policy.

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