History and Strategy

Name: History and Strategy
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ISBN: 9780691023434

ISBN-10: 0691023433

ISBN-13: 9780691023434

Edition: 1991

Authors: Marc Trachtenberg

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This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and that of strategists and political scientists, the essays here present a fresh and unified view of how to explore international politics in the nuclear era. The book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of "making sense" of the…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Marc Trachtenberg is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include "A Constructed Peace" and "The Craft of International History" (both Princeton).



Preface



Strategic Thought in America, 1952-1966



The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment



A "Wasting Asset": American Strategy and the Shifting Nuclear Balance, 1949-1954



The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European Relations



The Berlin Crisis



The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis



Making Sense of the Nuclear Age



Key to Abbreviations in Chapter Five


Index