William E Odom
Biographic Data
| ID | 284468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Odom |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Odom |
| SIGNATURE | ODOM W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hudson Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8577-5056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization
Founded in 1927, the Society of Friends of Defense and Aviation- Chemical Construction, or Osoaviakhim, became the largest mass voluntary association in the Soviet Union before World War II. Conceived in Bolshevik rhetoric about the creativity of the toiling masses, this novel organizational scheme gradually acquired bureaucratic substance and played a significant role in making the civilian masses administratively accessible for elementary progr…
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America
Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions: Lessons for Iraq from Vietnam, El Salvador and the Middle East
Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 18 January 2007.Good afternoon, Senator Biden, and members of the committee. It is a grave responsibility to testify before you today because the issue, the war in Iraq, is of such monumental importance
Withdraw Now
The invasion of Iraq may well turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in US history. And the longer America stays, the worse it will be
The Cold War Origins of the U.S. Central Command
During the Carter administration the Middle East and Southwest Asia became a third major theater in the Cold War struggle along with Europe and the Far East. Initially, President Jimmy Carter tried to remove this region from the Cold War competition, but the collapse of the shah's regime in Iran prompted Carter to reverse course and to build a “Persian Gulf security framework” that later allowed the United States to deal with three wars and many …
America’s Inadvertent Empire
A Grand Strategy for America
Journal Article A Grand Strategy for America Get access A Grand Strategy for America by Robert J. Art. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2003. 344 pp. $29.95. William E. Odom William E. Odom Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 182–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202312 Published: 15 February 2013
America's Inadvertent Empire
The United States finds itself at the center of a historically unparalleled empire, one that is wealth-generating and voluntary rather than imperialistic, say the authors of this compelling book. William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric examine America's unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture. They argue persuasively that the major threat to this unique empire is ineffe…
Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America
Security depends on intelligence. This is a discussion of basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them, outlining fundamental restructuring of this vast network of agencies, technology and human agents. William E. Odom is a high-ranking member of the United States Intelligence community. In the wake of 9/11, Odom has revised and updated a critique he wrote several years before for staffs of the US congressional committee overseeing…
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Journal Article Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower Get access Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2000. 765 pp. $54.95. William E. Odom William E. Odom Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/79824…
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
In this text, a United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author asserts that Gorbachev saw that shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the So…
Russia's Several Seats at the Table
In his reply to Jonathan Haslam's article published in the January 1998 issue of International Affairs, William Odom outlines his vision of NATO and its origins and purpose, and discusses the American strategic view of the post-Cold War world against which the decision to expand NATO should be seen. Russia will, he maintains, remain a problem for the West, but its importance and power should not be overemphasized. The danger facing the Western se…
Transforming the Military
How to create a true world order
Putting out the Balkan Fire
America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War
Aerospace requirements for U.S. Security
On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents
William E. Odom combines expertise in political science and military affairs to challenge both conventional and unconventional wisdom about insurgencies and political development. The author concludes that in all three components of U.S. strategy for counterinsurgency-political, economic, and military-faulty notions of causation inform policy. U.S. advice to embattled governments fails to recognize the inherent clash of development goals; direct …
Trial after Triumph: East Asia after the Cold War
Soviet Politics and After: Old and New Concepts
The totalitarian model remained the best analytic concept for studying Soviet politics because it offered clear empirical referents, provided a yardstick for measuring change, and could be adapted to explain the nature of change. Alternative models emphasizing pluralism encouraged the impression that “political development” was occurring rather than the ”political decay” that led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The study of the successor states m…
Gorbachev's Strategy and Western Security: Illusions Versus Reality
The Future of the Soviet Political System
Beginning with the leadership succession after Brezhnev, first Andropov's spurt of new policy initiatives, then an interregnum of drift under Chernenko, and finally the emergence of the vigorous and relatively youthful leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the future of the Soviet political system has been thrust once again into wide public attention. It promises to remain there for some time, maybe several years, as the new General Secretary tries to…
Soviet Military Doctrine
Trends in the balance of military power between East and West
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
In this text, a United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author asserts that Gorbachev saw that shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the So…
A Dissenting View on the Group Approach to Soviet Politics
In the struggle to find a successor to the totalitarian model for study of Soviet politics, the interest-group approach has won significant support. Yet this concept fails to meet all three of Huntington's criteria for a “useful” model. First, the group concept emphasizes the peripheral at the expense of what is of critical importance. Second, as a comparative concept it introduces errors in logic as well as a myriad of ambiguities in definition …
Soviet Politics and After: Old and New Concepts
The totalitarian model remained the best analytic concept for studying Soviet politics because it offered clear empirical referents, provided a yardstick for measuring change, and could be adapted to explain the nature of change. Alternative models emphasizing pluralism encouraged the impression that “political development” was occurring rather than the ”political decay” that led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The study of the successor states m…
A Grand Strategy for America
Journal Article A Grand Strategy for America Get access A Grand Strategy for America by Robert J. Art. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2003. 344 pp. $29.95. William E. Odom William E. Odom Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 182–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202312 Published: 15 February 2013
America's Inadvertent Empire
The United States finds itself at the center of a historically unparalleled empire, one that is wealth-generating and voluntary rather than imperialistic, say the authors of this compelling book. William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric examine America's unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture. They argue persuasively that the major threat to this unique empire is ineffe…
America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War
Soviet Military Doctrine
The Cold War Origins of the U.S. Central Command
During the Carter administration the Middle East and Southwest Asia became a third major theater in the Cold War struggle along with Europe and the Far East. Initially, President Jimmy Carter tried to remove this region from the Cold War competition, but the collapse of the shah's regime in Iran prompted Carter to reverse course and to build a “Persian Gulf security framework” that later allowed the United States to deal with three wars and many …
Transforming the Military
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America
Security depends on intelligence. This is a discussion of basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them, outlining fundamental restructuring of this vast network of agencies, technology and human agents. William E. Odom is a high-ranking member of the United States Intelligence community. In the wake of 9/11, Odom has revised and updated a critique he wrote several years before for staffs of the US congressional committee overseeing…
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Journal Article Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower Get access Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2000. 765 pp. $54.95. William E. Odom William E. Odom Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/79824…
Russia's Several Seats at the Table
In his reply to Jonathan Haslam's article published in the January 1998 issue of International Affairs, William Odom outlines his vision of NATO and its origins and purpose, and discusses the American strategic view of the post-Cold War world against which the decision to expand NATO should be seen. Russia will, he maintains, remain a problem for the West, but its importance and power should not be overemphasized. The danger facing the Western se…
How to create a true world order
Putting out the Balkan Fire
On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents
William E. Odom combines expertise in political science and military affairs to challenge both conventional and unconventional wisdom about insurgencies and political development. The author concludes that in all three components of U.S. strategy for counterinsurgency-political, economic, and military-faulty notions of causation inform policy. U.S. advice to embattled governments fails to recognize the inherent clash of development goals; direct …
Trial after Triumph: East Asia after the Cold War
Whither the Soviet Union
The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization
Do We Need State Old Age Pensions? No
The Soviet military and foreign policy: Foreign Policy 19, Summer 1975
The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization
Who Controls Whom in Moscow
Bolshevik Ideas on the Military's Role in Modernization
A Dissenting View on the Group Approach to Soviet Politics
In the struggle to find a successor to the totalitarian model for study of Soviet politics, the interest-group approach has won significant support. Yet this concept fails to meet all three of Huntington's criteria for a “useful” model. First, the group concept emphasizes the peripheral at the expense of what is of critical importance. Second, as a comparative concept it introduces errors in logic as well as a myriad of ambiguities in definition …
The Soviet Soldier
Whither the Soviet Union
Trends in the balance of military power between East and West
Soviet Military Doctrine
The Future of the Soviet Political System
Beginning with the leadership succession after Brezhnev, first Andropov's spurt of new policy initiatives, then an interregnum of drift under Chernenko, and finally the emergence of the vigorous and relatively youthful leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the future of the Soviet political system has been thrust once again into wide public attention. It promises to remain there for some time, maybe several years, as the new General Secretary tries to…
Gorbachev's Strategy and Western Security: Illusions Versus Reality
On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents
William E. Odom combines expertise in political science and military affairs to challenge both conventional and unconventional wisdom about insurgencies and political development. The author concludes that in all three components of U.S. strategy for counterinsurgency-political, economic, and military-faulty notions of causation inform policy. U.S. advice to embattled governments fails to recognize the inherent clash of development goals; direct …
Trial after Triumph: East Asia after the Cold War
Soviet Politics and After: Old and New Concepts
The totalitarian model remained the best analytic concept for studying Soviet politics because it offered clear empirical referents, provided a yardstick for measuring change, and could be adapted to explain the nature of change. Alternative models emphasizing pluralism encouraged the impression that “political development” was occurring rather than the ”political decay” that led to the Soviet Union's collapse. The study of the successor states m…
Aerospace requirements for U.S. Security
America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War
How to create a true world order
Putting out the Balkan Fire
Transforming the Military
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
In this text, a United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author asserts that Gorbachev saw that shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the So…
Russia's Several Seats at the Table
In his reply to Jonathan Haslam's article published in the January 1998 issue of International Affairs, William Odom outlines his vision of NATO and its origins and purpose, and discusses the American strategic view of the post-Cold War world against which the decision to expand NATO should be seen. Russia will, he maintains, remain a problem for the West, but its importance and power should not be overemphasized. The danger facing the Western se…
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Journal Article Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower Get access Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2000. 765 pp. $54.95. William E. Odom William E. Odom Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/79824…
Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America
Security depends on intelligence. This is a discussion of basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them, outlining fundamental restructuring of this vast network of agencies, technology and human agents. William E. Odom is a high-ranking member of the United States Intelligence community. In the wake of 9/11, Odom has revised and updated a critique he wrote several years before for staffs of the US congressional committee overseeing…
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