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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... France at least $ 1 billion a year.38 A weak French government could neither raise taxes nor cut other expenses . France was in a deepening financial crisis , as yet only dimly appreciated by most Frenchmen , who still felt prosperous ...
... France at least $ 1 billion a year.38 A weak French government could neither raise taxes nor cut other expenses . France was in a deepening financial crisis , as yet only dimly appreciated by most Frenchmen , who still felt prosperous ...
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... France was mortally endangered by the Soviets . However , he consid- ered NATO defense integration incompatible with his intention to restore France to her previous respected and independent position . Thus as early as 1952 he told ...
... France was mortally endangered by the Soviets . However , he consid- ered NATO defense integration incompatible with his intention to restore France to her previous respected and independent position . Thus as early as 1952 he told ...
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... France retained a massive African empire . Her colonies were nominally independent , but they retained very strong security and economic ties to France . Through the 1980s much of French strategy revolved around the need to support ...
... France retained a massive African empire . Her colonies were nominally independent , but they retained very strong security and economic ties to France . Through the 1980s much of French strategy revolved around the need to support ...
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War and Communism | 3 |
Stalins Soviet Union | 16 |
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