The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War

The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 297
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780739188309
ISBN-13 : 0739188305
Rating : 4/5 (305 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War by : Douglas E. Streusand

Download or read book The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War written by Douglas E. Streusand and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little credit for the end of the Cold War, with most of credit going to Mikhail Gorbachev; that Reagan’s management of the National Security Council staff was singularly inept; and that the United States is incapable of generating and implementing a grand strategy that employs all the instruments of national power and coordinates the work of all executive agencies. The Reagan years were hardly a time of interagency concord, but the National Security Council staff managed the successful implementation of its program nonetheless.


The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War Related Books

The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Douglas E. Streusand
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-14 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States
Cold War Strategist
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Linda McFarland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study of Cold War politics explores the attitudes of William Stuart Symington, a consummate Cold Warrior and Democratic senator from Missouri. The book foc
American Cold War Strategy
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Ernest R. May
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-03-15 - Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Written in 1950, NSC 68 laid out the rationale for American Cold War strategy. This volume includes the complete text of NSC 68, followed by commentaries from f
Strategies of Containment
Language: en
Pages: 503
Authors: John Lewis Gaddis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wa
George F. Kennan
Language: en
Pages: 800
Authors: John Lewis Gaddis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-28 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinatin