TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trachtenberg,Marc
TI  - History and strategy
T2  - Princeton studies in international history and politics
SN  - 0691078815 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 355.40904 22
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Princeton, N. J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Strategy
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Military history, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - MASPPSS
KW  - November2019
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 nuclear age. Trachtenberg reevaluates the immediate causes of World War I, studies the impact of the shifting nuclear balance on American strategy in the early 1950s, examines the relationship between the nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West European relations, and looks at the Berlin and the Cuban crises. He shows throughout that there are startling discoveries to be made about events that seem to have been thoroughly investigated. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/90021036.html
ER  -