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Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, this is a detailed expose of the disorderly and wasteful process that comprises U.S. defense decision-making. Kotz shows that political and economic factors are at least as important in major defense decisions as military analysis, and that the military services, members of Congress, presidential administrations and defense industries reciprocate support for each others' projects. Little of this is startling news, but Kotz provides a wealth of unknown specifics. The main focus is the nearly 30-year struggle of the Air Force for a new strategic bomber, the B-1, a struggle won during the Nixon administration and only brought to controversial fruition under Reagan. Kotz views our defense process as "spinning madly out of control." In his call for reform, he argues that military officers should be kept out of "the corrupting practices of defense politics."
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Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has produced a credible history of the B-1 bomber from inception of the concept nearly three decades ago to the flying machine of 1988. He interviewed several dozen military, industry, and political people, and used contemporary news accounts as sources. As his subtitle notes, he covers "money, politics, and the B-1 Bomber"; his account is reasonable, though in opposition to the Air Force position. Libraries wanting technical details on the airplane will need William Holder's B-1 Bomber (TAB, 1986), but Kotz's book is recommended for general readers. Gerald N. Sandvick, North Hennepin Community Coll., Brooklyn Park, Minn.
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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. 24 cm. ix, [1[, 313, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Sticker residue on back cover. Nathan K. "Nick" Kotz (September 16, 1932 - April 26, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and historian. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968 for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped ensure the passage of the Wholesome Meat Act. As a reporter for the Des Moines Register and the Washington Post, and as a freelance writer, Nick Kotz won many of journalism's most important honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, and the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. His study of American military leadership won the National Magazine Award for public service. His book Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber won the Olive Branch Award. Kotz's other books include A Passion For Equality: George Wiley and the Movement (with Mary Lynn Kotz); Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of Hunger; and The Unions (with Haynes Johnson). A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Kotz did graduate study in international relations at the London School of Economics. After college, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Derived from a Kirkus review: A savvy, damning critique of the long-running B-1 bomber program, which, on the persuasive evidence offered by journalist Kotz, appears to have yielded precious little return on an investment that now exceeds $28 billion. Tracing the star-crossed aircraft's origins back to the Eisenhower era, when the Air Force first proposed replacing its B-52s with a new strategic bomber, the author provides a stinging account of how Pentagon procurement has worked in practice over the past 30-odd years. To illustrate, he documents how the armed forces judiciously: threaten to shut down bases to undermine Capitol Hill lawmakers who do not vote for pet projects. Nor, he observes, are legislators above horsetrading either to keep military installations in their districts or to secure job-creating contracts for local corporations. The upshot is that vital decisions affecting national security are made on largely political grounds. By almost any objective standard, Kotz implies, the B-1 was a bad bet from the outset. By the late 1950's, for example, Russia' s Sputnik had made it abundantly clear that missiles would be the superpowers' mainstay vehicles for nuclear-weapons delivery. By this time, however, the strategic bomber had acquired a life of its own, plus a hard-core claque of special interests that overcame interservice rivalries and a wealth of other obstacles to keep the program going. Even President Carter, who had pledged to kill the B-1, was unable to deny the project the R&D funds it needed to survive. Ronald Reagan campaigned for the presidency in part on a promise to revive the B-1, which, despite more spirited opposition in the Congress, was duly put into production. In the meantime, cost considerations and uncertainties about Soviet radar capabilities dictated expedient trade-offs in design features once hawked as selling points. The plane now going into service has neither the range nor the firepower initially envisioned, Kotz reports, and, in many respects, the aging B-52s that have been retrofitted with advanced avionics gear are its superiors. There's plenty of blame to go around for this calamitously expensive misallocation of resources, and the author metes it out in measured but unsparing fashion. A sorry tale well told. First Princeton Paperback Printing [stated]. Seller Inventory # 38659
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