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Author : Steven L. Rearden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 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 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Goldberg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Strategy, money, and the New Look, 1953-1956 written by Alfred Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense written by Alfred Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Rearden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: The formative years, 1947-1950 written by Steven L. Rearden and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Military Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester J. Pach Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469650657
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Arming the Free World written by Chester J. Pach Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a worldwide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach analyzes the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid--for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe--to contain Communist expansion during the late 1940s. He shows that a crucial event was the passage of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, the progenitor of a long series of global, Cold War arms measures. Pach demonstrates that the main impetus for the startling growth of military assistance was a belief that it would provide critical political and psychological reassurance to friendly nations. Although this aid was ostensibly provided for military purposes, the overriding goals were insuring goodwill, raising foreign morale, stiffening the will to resist communism, and proving American resolve and reliability. Policymakers, Pach contends, confused means with ends by stressing the symbolic importance of furnishing aid. They sought additional appropriations with the threat that any diminution or cessation of aid suggested a weakening of American commitment. Pach reveals that civilian, not military, officials were the principal advocates of the expansion of military aid, and he shows how the policies established during the Truman administration continued to exert a profound influence throughout the Cold War. Some officials questioned the self-perpetuating qualities of military aid programs, but Pach concludes that their warnings went unheeded. Although fiscal restraints in the Truman administration temporarily stemmed the growth of aid, the Korean War exploded budgetary limitations. MIlitary assistance spending expanded rapidly in size and scope, gaining a momentum that succeeding administrations could not resist. Originally published in 1991. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : E. Bruce Geelhoed
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166932
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Diplomacy Shot Down written by E. Bruce Geelhoed and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down, E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned? In August 1959, with his second term nearing its end, Eisenhower made the surprise announcement that he and Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev would visit each other’s countries as a means of “thawing some of the ice” of the Cold War. Khrushchev’s trip to the United States in September 1959 resulted in plans for a four-power summit involving Great Britain and France, and for Eisenhower’s visit to Russia in early summer 1960. Then, in May 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 surveillance plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers. The downing of Powers’s plane was, in Geelhoed’s recounting of this episode in Cold War history, not just a diplomatic crisis. The ensuing collapse of the summit and the subsequent cancelation of Eisenhower’s trip to the Soviet Union amounted to a critical missed opportunity for improved US-Soviet relations at a crucial juncture in the Cold War. In a blow-by-blow description of the diplomatic overtures, the U-2 incident, and the aftermath, Diplomacy Shot Down draws upon Eisenhower’s projected itinerary and unmade speeches and statements, as well as the American and international press corps’ preparations for covering the aborted visit, to give readers a sense of what might have been. Eisenhower’s prestige within the Soviet Union was so great, Geelhoed observes, that the trip, if it had happened, could well have led to a détente in the increasingly dangerous US-Soviet relationship. Instead, the cancelation of Ike’s visit led to an escalation in hostilities that played out around the globe and nearly guaranteed that the “missile gap” would reemerge as an issue in the 1960 presidential campaign. A detailed account of an episode that defined the Cold War for a generation, Diplomacy Shot Down is, in its insights and revelations, something rarer still—a behind-the-scenes look at history in the unmaking.
Author : George W. Baer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788146
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Sea Power written by George W. Baer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made according to the state's goals, perceived threat, maritime opportunity, technological capabilities, practical experience, and, not the least, the way the sea service defines itself and its way of war. This book is a history of the modern U.S. Navy. It explains how the Navy, in the century after 1890, was formed and reformed in the interaction of purpose, experience, and doctrine.
Author : Jeffrey G. Barlow
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Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Revolt of the Admirals written by Jeffrey G. Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.
Author : Stephen I. Schwartz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815722946
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Atomic Audit written by Stephen I. Schwartz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ambitions during the cold war. As early as 1950, nuclear weapons were considered relatively inexpensive— providing "a bigger bang for a buck"—and were thoroughly integrated into U.S. forces on that basis. Yet this assumption was never validated. Indeed, for more than fifty years scant attention has been paid to the enormous costs of this effort—more than $5 trillion thus far—and its short and long-term consequences for the nation. Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its creation in 1940. The authors provide a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons, tracking their development from the Manhattan Project of World War II to the present day and assessing each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, control, communications, and intelligence; and defensive measures. They also examine the costs of dismantling nuclear weapons, the management and disposal of large quantities of toxic and radioactive wastes left over from their production, compensation for persons harmed by nuclear weapons activities, nuclear secrecy, and the economic implications of nuclear deterrence. Utilizing archival and newly declassified government documents and data, this richly documented book demonstrates how a variety of factors—the open-ended nature of nuclear deterrence, faulty assumptions about the cost-effectiveness of nuclear weapons, regular misrepresentati
Author : William Stueck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691118477
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Korean War written by William Stueck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and general readers alike. Beginning with the decision to divide Korea in 1945, he analyzes first the origins and then the course of the conflict. He takes into account the balance between the international and internal factors that led to the war and examines the difficulty in containing and eventually ending the fighting. This discussion covers the progression toward Chinese intervention as well as factors that both prolonged the war and prevented it from expanding beyond Korea. Stueck goes on to address the impact of the war on Korean-American relations and evaluates the performance and durability of an American political culture confronting a challenge from authoritarianism abroad.
Author : Michael J. Boskin
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817925961
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Defense Budgeting for a Safer World written by Michael J. Boskin and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is facing the most dangerous and complex geopolitical environment since World War II. Ensuring the adequacy and flexibility of our defense budget is essential to keeping our nation secure and the world safe for global democracy. Defense Budgeting for a Safer World brings together the ideas, perspectives, and solutions of America's most renowned experts on national security and the defense budget. The volume originates from a conference held at the Hoover Institution in early 2023 and reflects the presentations, discussions, and debates among military and civilian leaders. Drawing on their remarkable experience leading the Pentagon, the services, Congress, and academe, these experts lay out the key priorities in reforming, realigning, and rightsizing the budget amid current challenges. Several topics converge: national security threats, strategy, technology and innovation, personnel, reform options, and the politics of the defense budget. This unique compilation covers each of the major areas of debate in forging and sustaining a defense budget capable of supporting the nation's security needs.
Author : Doris M.. Condit
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Test of War written by Doris M.. Condit and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Babcock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Mavericks written by Elizabeth Babcock and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ezeifekwuaba Tochukwu Benedict
Publisher : Exceller Books
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Second World War of the US Army (1945-1950) written by Ezeifekwuaba Tochukwu Benedict and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book talks about the Second World War of the USA Army (1945-1950), the Interests of Russia on China-United States (US) Trade War, Biafra, Islam, Insecurity and World Economic Crisis and Conflict in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and other historical facts that are very vital and necessary.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Comparative Science and Technology Policy written by Sheila Jasanoff and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology policy is widely recognized as a critically important sphere of state activity. This book presents an authoritative overview of comparative research on science and technology policy in order to illuminate the choices that confront decision makers in this field. With contributions from various disciplines including economics, political science, law and science and technology studies, the selection of articles reflects both traditional perspectives and those which challenge conventional assumptions. The book covers such topics as the relationship between science and the state, and comparisons of how different governments seek to support and regulate scientific research, technology, industrial innovation and global competitiveness. Finally it looks at how international influences can affect national policies.
Author : Samuel R. Williamson Jr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113705882X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1953 written by Samuel R. Williamson Jr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. This comprehensive study by two careful and well-informed historians provides the best explanation we have of why this process took so long; it also suggests the inherent difficulties of relying on nuclear weapons to provide security in the first place. Required reading for anyone interested in the early history of the nuclear era.
