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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... January 1946 the War Depart- ment decided to retain through June many men who had expected to be dis- charged by March . A wave of protests showed that it would be difficult to maintain credible forces overseas . In March 1946 , with ...
... January 1946 the War Depart- ment decided to retain through June many men who had expected to be dis- charged by March . A wave of protests showed that it would be difficult to maintain credible forces overseas . In March 1946 , with ...
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... January 1959 administration offi- cials convinced several Democrats that the gap was irrelevant , given overall U.S. strategic superiority . Neither Symington nor Kennedy cared . Soon evidence began to accumulate that Khrushchev had ...
... January 1959 administration offi- cials convinced several Democrats that the gap was irrelevant , given overall U.S. strategic superiority . Neither Symington nor Kennedy cared . Soon evidence began to accumulate that Khrushchev had ...
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... January 1949 he was flown to Moscow , where he died in July 1950 , probably having been murdered ( Mastny , The Cold War and Soviet Insecu- rity , 69 ) . 2. R. Craig - Nation , “ A Balkan Union ? " in The Soviet Union and Europe , ed ...
... January 1949 he was flown to Moscow , where he died in July 1950 , probably having been murdered ( Mastny , The Cold War and Soviet Insecu- rity , 69 ) . 2. R. Craig - Nation , “ A Balkan Union ? " in The Soviet Union and Europe , ed ...
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