1. The politics of weakness: Introduction / W. Scott Thompson
Heritage of weakness: an assessment of the 1970s / Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
2. Quick fixes: Preparing for industrial mobilization: the first step toward full strength / Fred Charles Iklé
Defense innovation and geopolitics: from the Persian Gulf to Outer Space / Geoffrey T.H. Kemp
Quick fixes to U.S. strategic nuclear forces / William R. Van Cleave
Washington and the Atlantic Alliance: the hidden crisis / Richard R. Burt
Half-wars and half-policies in the Persian Gulf / Albert Wohlstetter
Quick fixes in intelligence / Robert F. Ellsworth
Soviet military posture and strategic trade / Miles M. Costick
3. The politics of strength: On the meaning of strategy...for the United States in the 1980s / Edward N. Luttwak
The threatened jugular: oil supply of the West / Henry S. Rowen
Revitalizing alliances / Kenneth L. Adelman
Conventional forces beyond NATO / Francis J. West, Jr.
Correlating national security strategy and defense investment / Leonard Sullivan, Jr.
Defense budget and defense capabilities / Sam Nunn
4. An American strategy for the 1980s: Strategy: the emerging dangers / Charles Burton Marshall
Policy and strategy from weakness / Paul H. Nitze
5. Epilogue: Toward a strategic peace / W. Scott Thompson.
