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Rearming The Phoenix American Military Assistance To The Federal Republic Of Germany 1950 60
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Book Synopsis Rearming the Phoenix by : Andrew James Birtle
Download or read book Rearming the Phoenix written by Andrew James Birtle and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution of the American military assistance program to West Germany from the inception of planning in 1950 to the end of the decade by which time the bulk of U.S. aid had been delivered. The paper will explore the interrelationship of U.S. diplomatic policy, military policy and military assistance planning during the 1950s. In doing so it will both illustrate the uses and limitations of military aid to achieve diplomatic and military goals and provide insights into German-American relations, the development of NATO, and the recreation of German armed forces. In reviewing the aid programs, this study will focus on American planning for the German army. This is because the army program was the most important politically and militarily of the three service programs and because it comprised the largest portion of the aid package"--Introduction.
Book Synopsis Rearning the phoenix by : Andrew J. Birtle
Download or read book Rearning the phoenix written by Andrew J. Birtle and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rearming the Phoenix by : Andrew James Birtle
Download or read book Rearming the Phoenix written by Andrew James Birtle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rearming Germany by : James S. Corum
Download or read book Rearming Germany written by James S. Corum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of trhe reamament of Germany after World War II. The book centers on the debate on German rearmament inside Germany and in the international context. The issues of military planning and economic effects of German rearmament are discussed, as well as the rearmament of the East German State.
Book Synopsis A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 by : Jonathan M. House
Download or read book A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 written by Jonathan M. House and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis. A major theme of this account is the relationship between government policy and military preparedness and strategy. Author Jonathan M. House tells of generals engaging in policy confrontations with their governments’ political leaders—among them Anthony Eden, Nikita Khrushchev, and John F. Kennedy—many of whom made military decisions that hamstrung their own political goals. In the pressure-cooker atmosphere of atomic preparedness, politicians as well as soldiers seemed instinctively to prefer military solutions to political problems. And national security policies had military implications that took on a life of their own. The invasion of South Korea convinced European policy makers that effective deterrence and containment required building up and maintaining credible forces. Desire to strengthen the North Atlantic alliance militarily accelerated the rearmament of West Germany and the drive for its sovereignty. In addition to examining the major confrontations, nuclear and conventional, between Washington, Moscow, and Beijing—including the crises over Berlin and Formosa—House traces often overlooked military operations against the insurgencies of the era, such as French efforts in Indochina and Algeria and British struggles in Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, and Aden. Now, more than fifty years after the events House describes, understanding the origins and trajectory of the Cold War is as important as ever. By the late 1950s, the United States had sent forces to Vietnam and the Middle East, setting the stage for future conflicts in both regions. House’s account of the complex relationship between diplomacy and military action directly relates to the insurgencies, counterinsurgencies, and confrontations that now occupy our attention across the globe.
Book Synopsis Forging the Shield by : Donald A. Carter
Download or read book Forging the Shield written by Donald A. Carter and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2015 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book that includes tables, charts, and maps primarily discusses the role of USAREUR (US Army Europe) in rearming and training the new German Army which was perhaps the Army's single greatest contribution toward maintaining security in Western Europe. Likewise, the relationship between American soldiers and their French and West German hosts evolved over time and is a critical element in telling the story of the US Army in Europe.
Book Synopsis Exposing the Third Reich by : Henry G. Gole
Download or read book Exposing the Third Reich written by Henry G. Gole and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II recedes from living memory, there remain untold stories of important behind-the-scenes operatives who provided vital support to the leaders celebrated in historical accounts. Colonel Truman Smith is one of the most compelling figures from this period, but there has never been a biography of this important and controversial man. In Exposing the Third Reich, Henry G. Gole tells this soldier's story for the first time. An American aristocrat from a prominent New England family, Smith was first assigned to Germany in 1919 during the Allied occupation and soon became known as a regional expert. During his second assignment in the country as a military attaché in 1935, he arranged for his good friend Charles Lindbergh to inspect the Luftwaffe. The Germans were delighted to have the famous aviator view their planes, enabling Smith to gather key intelligence about their air capability. His savvy cultivation of relationships rendered him invaluable throughout his service, particularly as an aide to General George C. Marshall; however, the colonel's friendliness with Germany also aroused suspicion that he was a Nazi sympathizer. Gole demonstrates that, far from condoning Hitler, Smith was among the first to raise the alarm: he predicted many of the Nazis' moves years in advance and feared that the international community would not act quickly enough. Featuring many firsthand observations of the critical changes in Germany between the world wars, this biography presents an indispensable look both at a fascinating figure and at the nuances of the interwar years.
Book Synopsis U.S. Army counterinsurgency and contingency operations doctrine, 1942-1976 (Paperbound) by :
Download or read book U.S. Army counterinsurgency and contingency operations doctrine, 1942-1976 (Paperbound) written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature of counterinsurgency and nation-building missions, the institutional obstacles inherent in dealing effectively with such operations, and the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. doctrine, including the problems that can occur when that doctrine morphs into dogma.
Book Synopsis U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine by : Andrew James Birtle
Download or read book U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine written by Andrew James Birtle and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub 70-98-1. This study examines the nature of counterinsurgency and nation-building missions, the institutional obstacles inherent in dealing effectively with such operations, and the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. doctrine, including the problems that can occur when that doctrine morphs into dogma.
Book Synopsis North Atlantic Treaty Organization by : Phil Williams
Download or read book North Atlantic Treaty Organization written by Phil Williams and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Disarmament to Rearmament by : Sheldon A. Goldberg
Download or read book From Disarmament to Rearmament written by Sheldon A. Goldberg and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet threat led to disagreements both within the US government and among members of the nascent NATO alliance. The US military took the practical view that a substantial number of German troops would be required to deter any potential Soviet assault. The State Department, on the other hand, initially advocated an alternative strategy of strengthening European institutions but eventually came around to the military’s position that an armed West Germany was preferable to a weak state on the dividing line between the Western democracies and the Soviet satellite states. Sheldon A. Goldberg traces the military, diplomatic, and political threads of postwar policy toward West Germany and provides insights into the inner workings of alliance building and the roles of bureaucrats and military officers as well as those of diplomats and statesmen. He draws on previously unexamined primary sources to construct a cogent account of the political and diplomatic negotiations that led to West Germany’s accession to NATO and the shaping of European order for the next forty years.
Book Synopsis The Cold War U.S. Army by : Ingo Trauschweizer
Download or read book The Cold War U.S. Army written by Ingo Trauschweizer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the Seventh Army in West Germany--the largest and best-prepared field army ever deployed by the U.S. in peacetime--to show how the U.S. army redefined its identity, structure, and mission in order to avoid obsolescence during the Cold War era of nuclear weapons and air power.
Book Synopsis Coca-Colonization and the Cold War by : Reinhold Wagnleitner
Download or read book Coca-Colonization and the Cold War written by Reinhold Wagnleitner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States. Wagnleitner traces the intimate relationship between the political and economic reconstruction of a democratic Austria and the parallel process of cultural assimilation. Initially, U.S. cultural programs had been developed to impress Europeans with the achievements of American high culture. However, popular culture was more readily accepted, at least among the young, who were the primary target group of the propaganda campaign. The prevalence of Coca-Cola and rock 'n' roll are just two examples addressed by Wagnleitner. Soon, the cultural hegemony of the United States became visible in nearly all quarters of Austrian life: the press, advertising, comics, literature, education, radio, music, theater, and fashion. Hollywood proved particularly effective in spreading American cultural ideals. For Europeans, says Wagnleitner, the result was a second discovery of America. This book is a translation of the Austrian edition, published in 1991, which won the Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize.
Book Synopsis The Soldier and the Changing State by : Zoltan Barany
Download or read book The Soldier and the Changing State written by Zoltan Barany and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, this title argues that the military is the important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. It demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of democratizing regimes.
Book Synopsis Money and Security by : Hubert Zimmermann
Download or read book Money and Security written by Hubert Zimmermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study links the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system during the Cold War era.
Book Synopsis Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War by : Till Geiger
Download or read book Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War written by Till Geiger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western European countries. In many cases, the explanation for this phenomenon has been attributed to the high level of defence spending that successive British post-war governments adhered to. Yet is it fair to assume that Britain's relative economic decline could have been prevented if policy makers had not spent so much on defence? Examining aspects of the political economy and economic impact of British defence expenditure in the period of the first cold war (1945-1955), this book challenges these widespread assumptions, looking in detail at the link between defence spending and economic decline. In contrast to earlier studies, Till Geiger not only analyses the British effort within the framework of Anglo-American relations, but also places it within the wider context of European integration. By reconsidering the previously accepted explanation of the economic impact of the British defence effort during the immediate post-war period, this book convincingly suggests that British foreign policy-makers retained a large defence budget to offset a sense of increased national vulnerability, brought about by a reduction in Britain's economic strength due to her war effort. Furthermore, it is shown that although this level of military spending may have slightly hampered post-war recovery, it was not in itself responsible for the decline of the British economy.
Book Synopsis GIs in Germany by : Thomas W. Maulucci
Download or read book GIs in Germany written by Thomas W. Maulucci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fifteen essays offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany since World War Two.
