TY - BOOK AU - Trachtenberg,Marc TI - History and Strategy T2 - Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy SN - 9780691217987 AV - U163 .T73 1991eb U1 - 355.4/0904 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Military history, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Strategy KW - HISTORY / Military / General KW - bisacsh KW - Acheson, Dean KW - Adenauer, Konrad KW - Albertini, Luigi KW - Bradley, Omar KW - Bundy, McGeorge KW - De Gaulle, Charles KW - Grey, Sir Edward KW - Gromyko, Andrei KW - Herter, Christian KW - Hitch, Charles KW - Indochina KW - Jagow, Gottlieb von KW - Kaysen, Carl KW - Kennan, George KW - LeMay, Curtis KW - Macmillan, Harold KW - Nitze, Paul KW - Norstad, Lauris KW - Ridgway, Matthew KW - Rusk, Dean KW - Solarium, Project KW - Truman, Harry KW - William II, Emperor KW - civil-military relations KW - counterforce KW - forward Defense KW - nuclear sharing N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691217987?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691217987 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691217987.jpg ER -