TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wirls,Daniel
TI  - Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era 
SN  - 9781501738074
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Defense Policy and Domestic Politics --; 1. Continuity and Change in Cold War Politics --; 2. Military Policy and the Reagan Revolution --; 3. The Rise of the Nuclear Weapons Peace Movement --; 4. The Origins of Military Reform --; 5. The Nuclear Freeze Campaign and the Democratic Party --; 6. The Strategic Defense Initiative --; 7. Congressional Procurement Reform --; 8. From Buildup to Build-down --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The eight-year Reagan presidency not only initiated the largest peacetime military buildup in American history, but also altered traditional partisan alignments and revised the policy agenda of the welfare state. In his insightful book, Daniel Wirls clarifies the relationship between defense policy and domestic policy during this period of significant political change when he examines three defense policies, the political coalitions behind them, and their interactions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738074
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738074
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501738074/original
ER  -