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During the Jimmy Carter administration, U.S. defense policy went through a transition. In the mid‐1970s, when Carter was elected, the armed forces were in search of themselves as a result of the American defeat in Vietnam and clashed with the new, fiscally‐conservative president over such matters as weapons procurement and troop dispositions. Members of Congress and U.S. allies too did not see entirely...
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