From hot war to cold : the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / Jeffrey G. Barlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barlow, Jeffrey G., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States--History--20th century.

National security.

Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces)--United States--History.

Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces).

Sea-power--United States--History--20th century.

Sea-power.

United States--Military policy--Decision making.

United States.

United States--History, Naval--20th century.

United States. Navy--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1468 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the early postwar fighting in China between the Nationalists and the Communists, the formation of NATO, the outbreak of the Korean War, the decision of the Eisenhower Administration not to intervene in the Viet Minh troops' siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, and the initiation of the Eisenhower "New Look" defense policy. The author relies upon information obtained from a wide range of primary sources and personal interviews with important, senior Navy and Army officers. The result is a book that provides the reader with a new way of looking at these pivotal events.

Contents:

Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning

The Navy and unification

The National Security Act achieved

Preparing for a new enemy

War ends in the Pacific

Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946

Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat

Adjusting to the National Military Establishment

Living in "interesting times"

Slugging it out on Capitol Hill

Events in the western Pacific

Troubles on the Korean Peninsula

Deciding to fight

Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages

The Eisenhower national security structure

Rethinking national strategy

Coping with the new look

A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-682) and index.

ISBN:

9780804770965

0804770964

OCLC:

793166798