Twelve experts give an overall assessment of US post-Cold War defence needs and Clinton policy from a variety of perspectives. Together they analyse the causes for concern and planning for the future, questions relating to nuclear weapons, multilateral defence management, peacekeeping, and peace enforcement, special operations and low-intensity conflict, current policymaking problems, civil-military relations, and prospects for the Clinton programme in the 1990s. Provocative questions and conclusions should stimulate discussion among advanced undergraduate and graduate students and teachers, as well as to military experts and policymakers.