The Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare: Vietnam, Central America, and Nuclear Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780817359379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str.

Howard Mumford Jones; Robert F. Burk; Mark Clodfelter

Opis

An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of ""limited warfare."" These essays demonstrate that the making of foreign policy is immensely complicated, not subject to easy solution or to simple explanation.

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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction by Howard Jones
• 1. The Importance of Studying Military History by Robert H. Ferrell
• Part 1. The War in Vietnam
• 2. Prelude to Vietnam: The Erosion of the U.S. Army’s Raison d’Être, 1945–1962 by Harry G. Summers, Jr.
• 3. “In the Lands of the Blind”: Eisenhower’s Commitment to South Vietnam, 1954 by George C. Herring
• 4. Applying Air Power in Vietnam: The 1972 Linebacker Bombing Campaigns by Mark Clodfelter
• Part 2. The Home Front
• 5. Cold War, Limited War, and Limited Equality: Blacks in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1945–1970 by Robert F. Burk
• 6. The Antiwar Movement in America, 1955–1965 by Charles DeBenedetti
• 7. Guns versus Butter: Vietnam’s effect on Congressional Support for the Great Society by James C. Schneider
• Part 3. Central America
• 8. Revolt against the West: The Nicaraguan Revolution and Related Movements by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
• 9. The United States, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, 1980–1984 by Thomas M. Leonard
• Part 4. Nuclear War and Deterrence
• 10. Prospects for Ballistic Missile Defense toward the Year 2000 by Donald M. Snow
• 11. American Nuclear Weapons Programs and Strategies during the 1980s. Comparative United States and Soviet Perspectives by Daniel S. Papp
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index