While Others Build: The Commonsense Approach to the Strategic Defence/Initiative

by Angelo M. Codevilla

Criticizes the Strategic Defense Initiative, argues that SDI research makes the U.S. more vulnerable to Soviet attack, and suggests a change in U.S. defense policy

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. Educated at Rutgers (1965) Notre Dame (1968), and the Claremont graduate university (1973), Codevilla served in the US Navy, the US Foreign Service, and on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He taught philosophy at Georgetown, classified intelligence matters at the US Naval Post graduate School. During a decade at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, he wrote books on war, intelligence, and the character of nations. At Boston University, he taught international relations from the perspectives of history and character.