Suchergebnisse

"This collection of articles represents Professor Williamson Murray's efforts to elucidate the role that history should play in thinking about both the present and the future. They reflect three disparate themes in Professor Murray's work: his deep fascination with history and those who have acted in the past; his fascination with the similarities in human behavior between the past and the present; and his belief that the study of military and strategic history can be of real use to those who will confront the daunting problems of war and peace in the twenty-first century. The first group of essays addresses the relevance of history to an understanding of the present and to an understanding of the possibilities of the future. The second addresses the possible direct uses of history to think through the problems involved in the creation of effective military institutions. The final group represents historical case studies that serve to illuminate the present"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966 -- Chapter Two The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment -- Chapter Three A "Wasting Asset": American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance, 1949-1954 -- Chapter Four The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations -- Chapter Five The Berlin Crisis -- Chapter Six The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter Seven Making Sense of the Nuclear Age -- Appendix Key to Abbreviations in Chapter Five -- Index

This morning, my assignment is a challenging one indeed: an analysis of current U.S. military strategy and how it supports the participation of our armed forces, either under circumstances of general war or of conflict short of general war.