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History and Strategy / Marc Trachtenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy ; 1Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691217987
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.4/0904 23
LOC classification:
  • U163 .T73 1991eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966 -- Chapter Two The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment -- Chapter Three A "Wasting Asset": American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance, 1949-1954 -- Chapter Four The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations -- Chapter Five The Berlin Crisis -- Chapter Six The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter Seven Making Sense of the Nuclear Age -- Appendix Key to Abbreviations in Chapter Five -- Index
Summary: This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and that of strategists and political scientists, the essays here present a fresh and unified view of how to explore international politics in the nuclear era. The book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of "making sense" of the nuclear age. Trachtenberg reevaluates the immediate causes of World War I, studies the impact of the shifting nuclear balance on American strategy in the early 1950s, examines the relationship between the nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European relations, and looks at the Berlin and the Cuban crises. He shows throughout that there are startling discoveries to be made about events that seem to have been thoroughly investigated.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966 -- Chapter Two The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment -- Chapter Three A "Wasting Asset": American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance, 1949-1954 -- Chapter Four The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations -- Chapter Five The Berlin Crisis -- Chapter Six The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter Seven Making Sense of the Nuclear Age -- Appendix Key to Abbreviations in Chapter Five -- Index

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This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and that of strategists and political scientists, the essays here present a fresh and unified view of how to explore international politics in the nuclear era. The book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of "making sense" of the nuclear age. Trachtenberg reevaluates the immediate causes of World War I, studies the impact of the shifting nuclear balance on American strategy in the early 1950s, examines the relationship between the nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European relations, and looks at the Berlin and the Cuban crises. He shows throughout that there are startling discoveries to be made about events that seem to have been thoroughly investigated.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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