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Author : Steven T. Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135243258
In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an aggressive power. American military planners began to develop strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with the Soviet Union. This work examines those plans.
Author : Steven T. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Strategy
ISBN : PSU:000056219203
This documentary sourcebook of actual U.S. war plans traces the nation's political and strategic goals from the contemplation of war against Japan and Germany in November of 1938 to Eisenhower's March 1945 plan for the defeat of Germany and the conquest of Japan. For the first time, the major strategic - e.g., ABC-1 and Rainbow 5 - and operational - e.g., Torch, Husky, Plan Dog, Fortitude, and Cartwheel - war plans of the U.S. military pertaining to WWII are presented in one volume. Ross sets each plan in its strategic and operational context with an explanatory and analytical introduction.
Author : John M. Curatola
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476621371
Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American "Pax Atomica" in place, the free world held an apparent strategic advantage over the Soviet bloc and saw itself as a bulwark against communist expansion. But America's atomic superiority in the early postwar years was more fiction than fact. From 1945 until 1950, the U.S. atomic arsenal was poorly coordinated, equipped and funded. The newly formed Atomic Energy Commission inherited from the Manhattan Engineer District a program suffering from poor organization, failing infrastructure and internal conflict. The military establishment and the Air Force's Strategic Air Command little knew what to do with this new weapon. The Air Force and the AEC failed to coordinate their efforts for a possible atomic air offensive and war plans were ill-conceived, reflecting unrealistic expectations of Air Force capabilities and possible political outcomes. This lack of preparedness serves as a case study in the tenuous nature of American civilian-military relationships. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Steven T. Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022331289
This volume offers an understanding of the gap between American strategic plans and what actually happened in the Second World War.
Author : Steven T. Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135243180
In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an aggressive power. American military planners began to develop strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with the Soviet Union. This work examines those plans.
Author : Steven T. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Military planning
ISBN : OCLC:1330343184
Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640124196
Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as “massive retaliation” and “mutually assured destruction,” blunt instruments to be casually dismissed in favor of more flexible approaches or summed up in inflammatory and judgmental terms like “MAD.” These descriptors evolved into slogans, and any nuanced discussion of the efficacy of the actual strategies withered due to a variety of political and social factors. Drawing on newly released weapons effects information along with new information about Soviet capabilities as well as risky and covert espionage missions, Emergency War Plan provides a completely new examination of American nuclear deterrence strategy during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, the first such study since the 1980s. Ultimately what emerges is a picture of a gargantuan and potentially devastating enterprise that was understood at the time by the public in only the vaguest terms but that was not as out of control as has been alleged and was more nuanced than previously understood.
Author : Vojtech Mastny,Sven S. Holtsmark,Andreas Wenger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136011825
This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective. Based on previously unknown archival evidence from both East and West, the twelve essays in the book focus on the potential European battlefield rather than the strategic competition between the superpowers. They present conclusions about the nature of the Soviet threat that could previously only be speculated about and analyze the interaction between military matters and politics in the alliance management on both sides, with implications for the present crisis of the Western alliance. This new book will be of much interest for students of the Cold War, strategic history and international relations history, as well as all military colleges.
Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 067106150X
Author : Michio Kaku,Afterword by Axelrod,Daniel Axelrod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nuclear warfare
ISBN : 0921689071
To Win a Nuclear War records as fully as we are likely to find what has gone on in the minds of American leaders and nuclear strategists on this awesome subject during these fateful forty years. It is an appalling story... This book compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race."--From the foreword by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. To Win a Nuclear War provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack. The book also documents the surprising reasons why the war plans were never carried out and discloses the deeper, hidden meaning of the Star Wars program.
Author : Gian P. Gentile
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814732717
In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific. The final study, consisting of over 330 separate reports and annexes, was staggering in its size and emphatic in its conclusions. As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source and a guiding text, a veritable Bible for historians of air power. In this aggressively revisionist volume, Gian Gentile examines afresh this influential document to reveal how it reflected to its very foundation the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. In the process, he exposes the survey as largely tautological and thereby throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. With a detailed chapter on the Gulf War and the resulting Gulf War Air Power Survey, and a concluding chapter on the lessons of the Kosovo air war, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? is the most comprehensive and important book on air power strategy in decades.
Author : Arnold G. Fisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112105160920
Military government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Author : George W. Baer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804727945
A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made according to the state's goals, perceived threat, maritime opportunity, technological capabilities, practical experience, and, not the least, the way the sea service defines itself and its way of war. This book is a history of the modern U.S. Navy. It explains how the Navy, in the century after 1890, was formed and reformed in the interaction of purpose, experience, and doctrine.
Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198859543
Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.
Author : Paul C. Avey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501740398
Why would countries without nuclear weapons even think about fighting nuclear-armed opponents? A simple answer is that no one believes nuclear weapons will be used. But that answer fails to consider why nonnuclear state leaders would believe that in the first place. In this superb unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues that the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit. Tempting Fate uses four case studies to show the key strategies available to nonnuclear states: Iraqi decision-making under Saddam Hussein in confrontations with the United States; Egyptian leaders' thinking about the Israeli nuclear arsenal during wars in 1969–70 and 1973; Chinese confrontations with the United States in 1950, 1954, and 1958; and a dispute that never escalated to war, the Soviet-United States tensions between 1946 and 1948 that culminated in the Berlin Blockade. Those strategies include limiting the scope of the conflict, holding chemical and biological weapons in reserve, seeking outside support, and leveraging international non-use norms. Counterintuitively, conventionally weak nonnuclear states are better positioned to pursue these strategies than strong ones, so that wars are unlikely when the nonnuclear state is powerful relative to its nuclear opponent. Avey demonstrates clearly that nuclear weapons cast a definite but limited shadow, and while the world continues to face various nuclear challenges, understanding conflict in nuclear monopoly will remain a pressing concern for analysts and policymakers.