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Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher : Viking Pr
ISBN 13 : 9780140043099
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rivals written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by Viking Pr. This book was released on 1976 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The rivals written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (749 download)
Download or read book “The” Rivals written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Ulam
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Download or read book Rivals written by A. Ulam and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam B. Ulam
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II written by Adam B. Ulam and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles L. Robertson
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765636362
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)
Download or read book International Politics Since World War II written by Charles L. Robertson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997-03-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.
Author : Seweryn Bialer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Global Rivals written by Seweryn Bialer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion book to a four-part PBS series, The Global Rivals covers all major aspects of the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. First time in paperback.
Author : Sheldon R. Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739117446
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Condemned to Repeat it written by Sheldon R. Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned to Repeat It addresses six historical myths that underwrote U.S. containment policy during the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet empire seemed to confirm the wisdom of U.S. containment policy and these lessons of history as universal truths that still influence U.S. foreign policy thinking today. A European states system based on realism, balance-of-power, raison d'etat, and great power diplomacy did not keep a "long peace" from 1815 to 1914. The punitive Versailles Treaty with Germany did not cause the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II. Erroneous analogies to Neville Chamberlain's failed attempt to avert war at Munich in 1938 worked its way into virtually every debate on the use of force to stop communist aggression during the Cold War. Franklin Roosevelt did not "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945. The conventional version of Yalta as a deal to divide Europe is fictional. U.S. containment policy did not create a stable bipolar world and, like the nineteenth-century balance-of power system, preserve another "long peace" for forty-five years after World War II. Ronald Reagan's military build-up and ideological crusade against the Soviet Union did not cause the fall of communism in 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev gave up the Soviet Empire. The Reagan "victory school" version of the end of the Cold War has given American leaders the dubious belief that the United States alone possesses the power to create a liberal democratic, free market world order. Condemned to Repeat It appeals to anyone with an interest in the legacy of the Cold War, including undergraduate students.
Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742564541
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Crucible of Power written by Howard Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was the sound of a single bullet, and then . . . a deafening barrage of gunfire and explosions. There were, literally, thousands of bullets in the air at once, and more tracers streaking across the sky than there were stars overhead. It was a miracle that most of us weren't killed instantly." Staff Sergeant Salvatore, "Sal," Giunta was the first living person to receive the Medal of Honor--the highest honor presented by the U.S. military--since the conclusion of the Vietnam War. In "Living with Honor, "this hero who maintains he is "just a soldier" tells us the story of the fateful day in Afghanistan that led to his receiving the unique honor. With candor, insight, and humility, Giunta not only recounts the harrowing events leading up to when he and his company fell under siege, but also illustrates the empowering, invaluable lessons he learned. As a seventeen-year-old teen working at Subway, Giunta was like any other kid trying to figure out which step to take next with his life after graduating from high school. When Giunta walked into the local Army recruiting center in his hometown, he just wanted a free T-shirt. But when he walked out, his curiosity had been piqued and he enlisted in the Army. Deployed to Afghanistan, Giunta soon learned from the more seasoned soldiers how "different" this war was compared to others that America had fought. Stationed with the 173rd Airborne Brigade near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the Korengal Valley-- also known as the "Valley of Death"--Giunta and his company were ambushed by Taliban insurgents. Giunta went into action after seeing that his squad leader had fallen. Exposing himself to blistering enemy fire, Giunta charged toward his squad leader and administered first aid while he covered him with his own body. Though Giunta was struck by the relentless barrage of bullets, he engaged the enemy and then attempted to reach additional wounded soldiers. When he realized that yet another soldier was separated from his unit, he advanced forward. Discovering two rebels carrying away a U.S. soldier, Giunta killed one insurgent and wounded the other, and immediately provided aid to the injured soldier. More than just a remarkable memoir by a remarkable person, "Living with Honor "is a powerful testament to the human spirit and all that one can achieve when faced with seemingly impossible obstacles. *** The President clasps the medal around my neck. Applause fills the room. But I know it's not for me alone. I look at my mom and dad. I look at Brennan's parents and I look at Mendoza's. And I try to communicate to Brennan and Mendoza wordlessly: "This is for you . . . and for everyone who has fought and died. For everyone who has made the ultimate sacrifice. I am not a hero. I'm just a soldier." --Salvatore A. Giunta, from "Living with Honor"
Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196516
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United States withdraw strategically from Europe after World War I and not after World War II? How did World War II reshape Americans’ understanding of their vital interests? What caused the United States to achieve victory in the long Cold War? To what extent did 9/11 transform U.S. national security policy? Is budgetary austerity a fundamental threat to U.S. national interests? Leffler’s wide-ranging essays explain how foreign policy evolved into national security policy. He stresses the competing priorities that forced policymakers to make agonizing trade-offs and illuminates the travails of the policymaking process itself. While assessing the course of U.S. national security policy, he also interrogates the evolution of his own scholarship. Over time, slowly and almost unconsciously, Leffler’s work has married elements of revisionism with realism to form a unique synthesis that uses threat perception as a lens to understand how and why policymakers reconcile the pressures emanating from external dangers and internal priorities. An account of the development of U.S. national security policy by one of its most influential thinkers, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism includes a substantial new introduction from the author.
Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878935
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
Author : Jerald A Combs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317456408
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895 written by Jerald A Combs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text offers a clear, concise and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. The book narrates events and policies but goes further to emphasize the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate, the domestic pressures on those policy-makers, and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.
Author : Steven L. Rearden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: The test of war, 1950-1953 written by Steven L. Rearden and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866277
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Cold War written by Joseph Smith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-03-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a year-by-year chronology and alphabetical entries on civilian and military leaders, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies.
Author : Steven L. Rearden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense written by Steven L. Rearden and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
