James R. Golden

Born on September 7, 1920, in the small town of Leesburg, Florida, James Ramsey Golden would live through both the Great Depression and WWII, arguably two of the most impactful events that shaped the United States we know today. Golden served in World War II as a fighter pilot, and after parachuting out of his damaged airplane on D-Day, he spent eleven months as a German prisoner of war at the infamous Stalag Luft III. While surviving the trials of war-and flourishing afterward-might be considered sufficient for one lifetime, Golden's path would take him through many more pivotal events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The tumultuousness South of the 1960s, adding the country's 50th state, hosting ambassadors, befriending future president Jimmy Carter, and being among the first Americans invited to China in the late 1970s are but a few. Through it all, James Golden remained a kind and genuine man who loved family and country, grateful for-and a bit bemused by-how his life unfolded. In the warm and friendly pages of Missing in Action Over Frances: A Life Well Lived, Golden takes you on his life's story-sometimes alarming, sometimes powerful, often humorous, and always interesting.

The Information Age has dawned at the same time the global political system is in transition. High technology performance and economic productivity are converging across the major developed regions of North America, East Asia, and Europe. If U.S. economic, military, and political leadership is to continue, it must depend more on flexible adaptation to the new technical and organizational realities and less on technological dominance. The heart of this adaptation lies in the evolution of a national technology policy that emphasizes market forces and the exploitation of network linkages within and among commercial and military organizations.

This book reflects the Atlantic Council's long-time concern with interdependence and the problems and challenges it poses for the United States and for U.S. allies and friends. The book explores the new breadth and depth of interdependenceówhich has profoundly changed in both respects since World War II, particularly in the last few years. The fundamental premise is that, recognizing together the collective strength that interdependence provides, the nations of the West can do together what no single nation could hope to accomplish acting alone. Contents: include: U.S. Interests Around the World; NATO's Enduring Foundation; The Convention Imbalance in Europe and Alliance Economic Constraints; Strategic Stability and Arms Control; ANZUS and Pacific Basin Security; U.S.-Japanese Security Relations and the Future of Asia; The Interrelationship of Atlantic and Pacific Issues: Allied Security in an Interdependent World. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States.