Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
Book, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
September 2000
Authors: Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Preventive Defense Project publications
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Preventive Defense Project
ABSTRACT
Keeping the Edge
Managing Defense for the Future
Edited by Ashton B. Carter & John P. White
This book addresses the organization and management of the national security establishment, and especially the Department of Defense, to implement the policies the nation's leaders choose for it, to manage the programs they direct, and to adapt to a changing world.
Contents
Please click the title name for full text of each chapter (PDF)
| * | Preface and Acknowledgements | viii | |
| 1 | Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future | Ashton B. Carter | 1 |
| 2 | Keeping the Edge in Joint Operations | John M. Shalikashvili with Bruce Rember, Phil Ehr, and Thomas Longstreth | 27 |
| 3 | Exploiting the Internet Revolution | Victor A. DeMarines with David Lehman and John Quilty | 61 |
| 4 | Keeping the Edge in Intelligence | Robert J. Hermann | 103 |
| 5 | Countering Asymmetric Threats | Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry with David Aidekman | 119 |
| 6 | Keeping the Technological Edge | Ashton B. Carter with Marcel Lettre and Shane Smith | 127 |
| 7 | Advancing the Revolution in Business Affairs | Michael J. Lippitz, Sean O'Keefe, and John P. White with John Brown | 163 |
| 8 | Ensuring Quality People in Defense | David S.C. Chu and John P. White with Nurith Berstein and John Brown | 203 |
| 9 | Managing the Pentagon's International Relations | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall with Christiana Briggs and Anja Miller | 235 |
| 10 | Strengthening the National Security Interagency Process | John Deutch, Arnold Kanter and Brent Scowcroft with Chris Hornbarger | 265 |
| 11 | Implementing Change | Judith A. Miller | 285 |
Chapters
- Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
- Keeping the Edge in Joint Operations
- Advancing the Revolution in Business Affairs
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Exploiting the Internet Revolution
- Keeping the Edge in Intelligence
- Countering Asymmetric Threats
- Keeping the Technological Edge
- Ensuring Quality People in Defense
- Managing the Pentagon's International Relations
- Strengthening the National Security Interagency Process
- Implementing Change
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