North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leuprecht, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sokolsky, Joel J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hughes, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications,
• Subjects: Politics and war.; Security, International.; United States-Politics and government.; International relations.; Military and Defence Studies.; International Security Studies.; US Politics.; Foreign Policy.

The protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.S. national security strategy. Strategic defense, however, has been an overlooked dimension in the vast literature on the U.S. strategic posture, with even less attention given to the necessity and dynamics of security collaboration within Nor...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• We have the watch
• Part I: The Global Perspective
• Putin's Security Policy and its Implications for NORAD
• Misplaced Prudence: The Role of Restraint in the Nuclear Threat Environment for North American Strategic Defense
• Challenges and Contradictions: Mexico and the US in North American Security Cooperation
• Part II: United States Defense Policy
• Hoping Primacy Stays Cheap: America's Grand Strategy
• NATO and NORAD in the Sino-Russo-pplAmerican Configuration of Power.-NORAD in an Age of Trump's Jacksonianism
• Part III: Canadian Defense Policy
• New Wineskin, Old Wine: The Future of Canadian Contributions to North American Security
• Canada's New Defence Policy and the Security of North America; A. Sens
• Future uncertainty, strategic defense, and North American defense cooperation: Rational institutionalist arguments pragmatically suggest NORAD's adaptation over replacement
• Part IV: The Future of North American Strategic Defense
• Beyond Modernization
• NORAD's Future: St-Amand's Revelation, Gortney's Complaint and VIGILANT SHIELD 17's Component Command
• NORAD, Tactical Fighter Modernization and the F-35: Operational Considerations, Process and Politics
• The Arctic and the Strategic Defence of North America: Resumption of the "Long Polar Watch
• Conclusion
• The Strategic Defense of North America in the 21st Century.