Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War

by Norman Friedman PhD.

Overview

To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super-powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can. . . . For the men and women who are going to lead the world in the first generation of the Twenty-First Century, this account of how the Cold War was fought and won is indispensable. For those of us who lived through it. . . . Friedman's account is enthralling. Having spent much of my life reading about, studying, worrying about, participating in the Cold War, I thought there was nothing new for me to learn about it. Boy was I wrong. Read The Fifty-Year War and see why. - Stephen Ambrose

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591142874
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	03/07/2007
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	1 Year

About the Author

Norman Friedman is a prominent naval analyst and the author of more than thirty books covering a range of naval subjects, from warship histories to contemporary defense issues. He is a longtime columnist for Proceedings magazine and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
Part 1	Setting the Stage	1
1	War and Communism	3
2	Stalin's Soviet Union	16
3	The West in 1945	25
4	The Nuclear Revolution in Warfare	33
Part 2	Outbreak	41
5	Initial Probes	43
6	Open War	57
7	The Marshall Plan and NATO	70
8	Tito and Mao	91
9	Rising Nationalism	102
10	Stalin's Military Buildup	115
11	Countering Stalin's Hordes	123
Part 3	Crises in a Nuclear World	133
12	Living with Stalin's Bomb: NSC 68	135
13	The "Super"	144
14	Crisis in the East	149
15	Defending Europe	171
16	Crisis: Indochina	180
17	Enter Khrushchev	186
18	The "New Look"	193
19	Khrushchev's "New Look"	211
20	Disaster via the Middle East	217
Part 4	Stalemate	229
21	The Missile Race	231
22	Crisis Time	241
23	Kennedy and "Wars of National Liberation"	252
24	Crises in Europe and Cuba	271
25	The McNamara Broom	283
26	De Gaulle vs. NATO	295
Part 5	The West on the Defensive	299
27	The Brezhnev Coup	301
28	Vietnam	308
29	Disaster	332
30	Repression	344
31	Peace without Victory	354
32	Brezhnev's Buildups	373
33	Detente and Discontent	382
34	The West at Bay	394
35	Nadir	421
Part 6	Counterattack and Victory	443
36	The Computer Bomb	445
37	Counterattack: The West Rearms	452
38	Unexpected Victory	467
	Notes	491
	Bibliography	561
	Index	577