Amazon.com description: Product Description: Provides contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. Reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world, and identifies issues that the US must face in the next century, such as peace operations, conflict and arms control, and the widening array of missions undertaken by US armed forces. Includes discussion questions, plus b&w maps and political cartoons. This fifth edition is updated since 1993. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.