The Fifty-year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold WarNaval Institute Press, 2000 - 597 oldal While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy "peace" enforced by mutually assured destruction via atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III, conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war and allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. Friedman is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, he connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology? |
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... China . In 1945 they gov- erned 95.5 million people rather than the four million of 1937. The Communist army grew from about 100,000 to 900,000 ( plus a 2.2 - million - man armed militia ) . At the end of the war , Stalin's army ...
... China . In 1945 they gov- erned 95.5 million people rather than the four million of 1937. The Communist army grew from about 100,000 to 900,000 ( plus a 2.2 - million - man armed militia ) . At the end of the war , Stalin's army ...
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... China . The JCS believed that Stalin was behind Mao ; the only difference between China and the Near East was the absence of a strong government , like Turkey's , around which effective resistance could be built . It seemed to the JCS ...
... China . The JCS believed that Stalin was behind Mao ; the only difference between China and the Near East was the absence of a strong government , like Turkey's , around which effective resistance could be built . It seemed to the JCS ...
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... China's primary enemy.24 On 2 March 1969 Chinese border guards secretly occupied a disputed island ( named Zhenbao by the Chinese , Demansky by the Soviets ) in the Ussuri River on the Siberian - Chinese border . When Soviet border ...
... China's primary enemy.24 On 2 March 1969 Chinese border guards secretly occupied a disputed island ( named Zhenbao by the Chinese , Demansky by the Soviets ) in the Ussuri River on the Siberian - Chinese border . When Soviet border ...
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War and Communism | 3 |
Stalins Soviet Union | 16 |
The West in 1945 | 25 |
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