Background
Snow, Donald M. was born on June 22, 1943 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of C.A. and Dorothea (Johnston) Snow.
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The Necessary Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Superpower Relations
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Book by Snow, Donald M.
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Distant Thunder by Donald M Snow (31-Aug-1997) Paperback
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National Security
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This text analyzes the history, evolution, and processes of national security policies. It examines national security from two fundamental fault lines--the end of the Cold War and the evolution of contemporary terrorism, dating from the 9/11 terrorist attacks and tracing their path up to the Islamic State (ISIS) and beyond. The book considers how the resulting era of globalization and geopolitics guides policy. Placing these trends in conceptual and historical context and following them through military, semi-military, and non-military concerns, National Security treats its subject as a nuanced and subtle phenomenon that encompasses everything from the global to the individual with the nation at its core. New to the Sixth Edition • Fully updated with expanded coverage of ISIS, the "new cool war" with Russia, cybersecurity challenges, natural resource wars and development, negotiations with Iran, border threats, and much more. • Includes a completely new chapter on "lethal landscapes" such as developing world international conflicts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East; the "siren song" of the Islamic State; and the dilemmas of guns, butter, and boots on the ground. • Shifts the focus from globalization to a more widely-ranging look at security, from the individual level to the regional to the global.
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Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy - An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems
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This book is about national security strategy: what it is, what its objectives are, what problems it seeks to solve or at least manage, and what kinds of influences constrain and create opportunities for the development and implementation of strategies. The heart of the problem with which national security strategy deals is the series of threats—normally military, but increasingly semi- or nonmilitary in character—that the country must confront and somehow overcome or contain. When the original version of this book1 was published in 1988, the set of threats facing the United States was reasonably static—those problems associated with the Cold War confrontation with a communist world led by the Soviet Union—even if there were signs of change on the horizon. In the ensuing decade and a half, that configuration of problems largely dissolved, along with the concrete parameters within which we operated. In its place is a much more diffuse, shifting, and controversial set of problems that is simultaneously simple, compelling, and arguable. Making strategy is no longer a simple, straightforward process, if it ever were. The making and implementation of strategy at the national level is largely an exercise in risk management and risk reduction. Risk, at that level, is the difference between the threats posed to our security by our adversaries and our capabilities to counter or negate those threats. Assessing risk and resolving it has two primary dimensions. The first is the assessment of risk itself: what conditions represent threats to our security, and how serious are those threats relative to one another and to our safety? The answers to these questions are not mechanical and obvious but are the result of subjective human assessments based on different political and philosophical judgments about the world and our place in it. The other dimension is the adequacy of resources to counter the threats that we identify. In circumstances of plenty, where there are adequate resources (manpower, materiel, perceived will, etc.) to counter all threats, this is not a problem. In the real world, each of these dimensions presents a real set of issues, which we must acknowledge up front.
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Donald M. Snow
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, U. Colorado, 1965; Master of Arts, U. Colorado, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana U., 1969.
Career
Assistant professor, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1969-1977; director international studies, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1972-1989; director faculty development, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1975-1980; associate professor, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1977-1982; professor, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1982-1989, 91-; professor national security, United States Air Command and Staff Colonel, Montgomery, Alabama, 1980; professor, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1989-1991. Consultant Washington Institute, 1985-1986. Professor United States Naval War College, 1985-1986;lecturer various foundations and committees.
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Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy - An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems
(This book is about national security strategy: what it is...)
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National Security
( This text analyzes the history, evolution, and processe...)
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The Necessary Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Superpower Relations
(Book by Snow, Donald M.)
- Distant Thunder by Donald M Snow (31-Aug-1997) Paperback
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Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy - An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems
Membership
Soccer coach Young Men’s Christian Association, Tuscaloosa, since 1981, Military Youth Activities, Newport,1985-1986, Alabama Soccer Club Team, since 1988. Fellow Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, International Studies Association (chairman section on military studies, 1983-1985), Air Force Association (patron).
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Married Donna Bock, May 30, 1969. 1 child, Eric DeVries.
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American