Strategic Command and Control (Record no. 220559)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0815709811 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | AL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 355.3 |
| Item number | BLAS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bruce G Blair |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10328 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Strategic Command and Control |
| Remainder of title | Redefining the Nuclear Threat |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Washington |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Brookings Institution |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1985 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv,341 p. |
| Other physical details | PB |
| Dimensions | 22x15 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | During the past twenty-five years, U.S. strategists have argued that avoiding nuclear war depends on deterring a Soviet first strike by ensuring that U.S. forces could survive a surprise attack in numbers sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage in retaliation. U.S. military and political leaders have thus emphasized acquiring more powerful and accurate weaponry and providing better protection for it, while defense analysts have focused on assessing the relative strength and survivability of U.S. and Soviet forces. In the process neither has given sufficient attention to the vulnerability of the U.S. command, control, and communications system that would coordinate warning of an attack in progress and the response to it. In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike. After summarizing the assumptions and evaluative methodology behind mainstream strategic theory, the study describes the current decentralized command and control system that, under conditions of surprise attack, could be unable to communicate with decisionmakers or with units responsible for executing the decisions. Blair traces in detail the development of the system over three decades; the attempts to improve it through the use of procedural guidelines, alternative and redundant communications channels, and survival tactics; and the continuing vulnerabilities from improved Soviet weapons and the environmental forces engendered by massive nuclear detonations. Blair also analyzes the probable effects of proposals by the Reagan administration to strengthen command, control, and communications systems and provides recommendations for further strengthening and for altering related policies, deployments, and strategies to improve the stability of deterrence. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Command and control systems |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10329 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Military Policy |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10330 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10331 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | BLAIR (Bruce G) |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10332 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | George Fernandes Collections |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Others | St Aloysius Library | St Aloysius Library | 03/23/2013 | 355.3 BLAS | GF03633 | 11/13/2021 | 11/13/2021 | George Fernandes Collections |
