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America's strategic blunders : intelligence analysis and national security policy, 1936-1991 / Willard C. Matthias.
LIBRA JK468.I6 M42 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthias, Willard C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- International relations.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Intelligence Triumphs and Failures in World War II 7
- 2 How the Cold War Began 43
- 3 The Korean War: A Pivotal Event 71
- 4 The 1950s: Evolving U.S. Views of the Soviet Threat 97
- 5 1958-1960: A New Communist-Bloc Activism? 139
- 6 1960: The Strategic Situation and Its Dangers 163
- 7 President Kennedy's Crises 171
- 8 The Estimate That Changed the World 195
- 9 Prophecies and Events of the 1960s 217
- 10 The Nixon Era and the Beginning of Detente 237
- 11 The Early 1970s: A New World Environment 257
- 12 Renewal of the Cold War 273
- 13 An Assault upon the National Intelligence Process 293
- 14 The Early 1980s: Years of Danger 315
- 15 The Road to Peace: 1983-1991 337.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271020660
- OCLC:
- 43318083
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