This book offers a general account of the cold war, spanning the period from 1945. He concludes, provocatively, that reagan more effectively than any other cold war president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. Assessing the threats of weapos of mass destruction, edition. The cambridge history of the cold war edited by melvyn p. The strategic plan that won the cold war the institute. Yet, when thinking about the strategy and aims of the reagan administration, consider. National security agency releases history of cold war intelligence activities. In the second part, the reader discovers the broad sweep of the many discussions, meetings, and decisions that helped reagan see the fruition of his strategy to win the cold war. Original introductions to each of 10 major parts as well as to the book as a whole have been updated by the author.
Tuchmans book the guns of august,45 an account of the miscalculations and emotional choices. Beginning with world war ii and ending with the collapse of the soviet union, he provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight. A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has cotaught at yale for decades for almost two decades, yale students have competed for admission each year to the studies in grand strategy seminar taught by john lewis gaddis, paul kennedy, and charles hill. Other major issues explored in this examination of the cold war include europes iron curtain, the nuclear arms race, decolonization in africa, and the spread of communism into latin. The rhetorical texts that are the subject of this book include speeches by presidents eisenhower and kennedy, the murrow mccarthy confrontation on cbs, the speeches and writings of peace advocates, and the recurring theme of unamericanism. Pdf conflict after the cold war ebooks includes pdf.
Strategic intelligence in the cold war and beyond mit press. The book begins as a record of the formative events shaping reagan, the man, in terms of his views and perceptions of communism. Strategy and tactics of the salvadoran fmln guerrillas. Antulio echevarria ii of the us army war college talks us through key books, both old and new, on military strategy. These essays on the classic period of the cold war 19. From the foreword by former national security advisor william p. National security agency releases history of cold war. We cannot guarantee that conflict after the cold war book is in the library, but if you are still not sure with the service, you can choose free trial service. A critical appraisal of american national security policy during the cold war is a revised and expanded edition of bancroft prize winner and cold war expert john lewis gaddis classic on understanding the history of containment as a policy, its role in bringing the cold war to an end, and its possible value or pitfalls in the future. American cold war strategy makes available to students, for the very first time, the complete text of nsc 68 the crucial government memorandum that set american foreign policy for the cold war. Cold war rhetoric is the first book in twenty years to bring a sustained rhetorical critique to bear on central texts of the cold war.
Cold war strategies of the cold war resource guide. Now in a revised edition, strategies of containment. A mustread for anyone interested in cold war history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post cold war world. An examination of the formulation, implementation, and evolution of american foreign policy doctrines and military planning during the cold war period. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisations collection. Click on the links below to go to the complete text. Nato shift of strategies in post cold war era, publisher. The document is accompanied by 22 commentaries many of which were written specifically. Lovett professor of history at yale university, and was the founding director of the bradyjohnson program in grand strategy. The rhetorical texts that are the subject of this book include speeches by presidents eisenhower and kennedy. Was there, in fact, a strategy to win the cold war, as many triumphalists claim, or was there instead a strategy to end the cold war. President reagans strategy to accelerate the demise of the soviet union.
Prior to that, he was the director of research at the us army war college. Grand strategies in the cold war cambridge university press. A catalogue record for this book is available from the british library library of congress cataloging in publication data origins of the cold war. Rewriting histories includes bibliographical references and index. Press, 2019, by shawn rosenheim html and pdf files with commentary at project muse. Measures in soviet strategy, shultz authored another book on soviet war tactics. The cold war is the term used to define the period between the end of world war ii in 1945 and the ultimate collapse of the soviet union and its satellite states in 1991. This updated edition of gaddis classic carries the history of containment through the end of the cold war.
Nineteen eightyfour by george orwell orwell takes his place at the head of this list as the first writer to use the term cold war in relation to geopolitical conditions immediately after the second world war in you and the atomic bomb. A critical appraisal of postwar american national security policy appeared in 1982 under just these circumstances. The strategy of containment is best known as a cold war foreign policy of the united states and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of world war ii. Texts about military strategy take us back into the mists of time but what it is, and what the nature of war is, remains hotly debated. Last battle of the cold war, blueprint for future conflicts by gustavo perdomo strategy, and tactics of the salvadoran fmln pdf australian animal coloring book. Strategies of containment paperback john lewis gaddis. The protatgonists in the cold war were the west, led by the united states, and the eastern bloc, led by the soviet union. Modern strategy free pdf, chm, djvu, doc books library. Recognizing the limits of cold war strategic stability models. The best books on military strategy five books expert. The record will one day show that in a relatively short period a brilliant but selfless nsc staff played a vital part in bringing about the end of the cold war.
The militarystrategic dimensions of world order were, in american thinking. The navy did the same, employing studies and war games at the naval war college in newport, r. When strategies of containment was first published, the soviet union was still a superpower, ronald reagan was president of the united states, and the berlin wall was still standing. The strategic plan that won the cold war the institute of world. In order to read online or download conflict after the cold war ebooks in pdf, epub, tuebl and mobi format, you need to create a free account. Nato faced an uncertain future, its traditional strategy in disarray now that the cold war was over. Many conflicts, such as the chinese civil war, the korean war, the vietnam war, and the arabisraeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the u. Echevarria ii is the editor of the us army war college quarterly. He is the author of clausewitz and contemporary war, imagining future war and after clausewitz, as well as several articles on military thinking and contemporary war.
If you already know a lot about the cold war era, perhaps this text isnt for you, but if you grew up during part of that period, you may have taken your knowledge base about the cold war for granted. His previous books include the united states and the origins of the cold war. On grand strategy, by john lewis gaddis, a preeminent historian and biographer of the cold war, does not offer a comprehensive analysis, much less a history, of strategy on a grand scale in. Soviet strategic forces went on alert three times during septemberoctober 1962 because of apprehension over cuban situation, top secret codeword history of national security agency shows. Colin gray is professor of international politics and director of the centre for security studies at the university of hull. Read the fulltext online edition of cold war rhetoric. National security archive electronic briefing book no.
These books have been chosen for their authoritative content, their. The lessons of world war ii became the strategy of the cold war. After the cold war, its history must be reassessed as the opening of soviet. A new book provides a window into reagans transformative cold war naval. This article on the cold war policy of containment is an excerpt from lee edwards and elizabeth edwards spaldings book a brief history of the cold war. A nuclear war did not erupt, and that is the measure of a successful national strategy.
Active measures in soviet strategy is a nonfiction book about disinformation. John lehman in his new book explains how reagans ocean venture 81 helped win the cold war against the soviet union. No other study explains how regional buddhism, us cold war policies, the asia foundation, and the world fellowship of buddhists helped change conservative thai buddhism into the politically involved institution that it is today. Top 10 books about the cold war books the guardian. Pdf nato shift of strategies in post cold war era researchgate. The soviet union and europe in the cold war, 194353 springerlink.
It is easy to conflate winning the cold war and ending the cold war. Read pdf epub download the cold war by odd arne westad from the story theory by westheadtobler79 with 19 reads. Carter center of military history united states army. He is the author of numerous books on strategy, including the navy in the post cold war world. Cold war books this selection of cold war books has been recommended by alpha history authors. I hope readers who lived through the cold war will also find the volume useful, because as marx once said groucho, not karl, outside of a dog, a book. As a component of the cold war, this policy was a response to the soviet unions move to increase communist influence in eastern europe, asia, africa, and latin america. Roosevelts postwar plans, gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of. I hope readers who lived through the cold war will also find the volume useful, because as marx once said groucho, not karl, outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend.
Ten histories of the cold war worth reading council on. Therefore, during the cold war, americas strategy was to constantly refuse to reach accommodation, while attempting to increase the number of its allies. Conflict after the cold war encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war and peace. In the cold war, john lewis gaddis makes a major contribution to our understanding of this epochal story. Gaddis is americas foremost cold war historian, and when i was in graduate school, strategies of containment was required reading for its crisp assessment of how successive presidents shaped. A primer in russian active measures and influence campaigns pdf, written. This book will most definitely open your eyes to some of the goings on between 1945 and 1989. Mcmahon is an american historian of the foreign relations of the united states and a leading scholar of the cold war. The uses and value of strategic sea 1994, explorations in strategy 2nd edn, 1998, and the second nuclear age forthcoming 1999. Cold war rhetoricis the first book in over twenty years to bring a sustained rhetorical critique to bear on central texts of the cold war.
And for those of us who were writing cold war history while the cold war was still going on, there was a special problem. The book gives pride of place to soviet economic concerns as a key driver of cold war international politics. A new history is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the cold war was never current events. You can also buy the book by clicking on the buttons to the left.
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