Lawrence Freedman

Kennedy's Wars (eBook, PDF)

Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

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Produktbeschreibung

In his thousand-day presidency, John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World, Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading the western world into a nuclear catastrophe. In Kennedy's Wars, noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace. He recreates insightfully the political and intellectual milieu of the foreign policy establishment during Kennedy's era with vivid profiles of his top advisors--Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Robert Kennedy--and influential figures such as Dean Acheson and Walt Rostow. Tracing the evolution of traditional liberalism into the Cold War liberalism of Kennedy's cabinet, Freedman evaluates their responses to the tensions in Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. He gives each conflict individual attention, showing how foreign policy decisions came to be defined for each new crisis in the light of those that had gone before. The book follows Kennedy as he wrestles with the succession of major conflicts--taking advice, weighing the risks of inadvertently escalating the Cold War into outright military confrontation, exploring diplomatic options, and forming strategic judgments that would eventually prevent a major war during his presidency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198030751
• Artikelnr.: 38149598

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College, London since 1982. He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1995, he was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair as Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Kennedy's Wars
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Section 1: The Cold War and How to Fight It
2: Beyond Massive Retaliation
3: The Third World Alternative
4: Policies and People
Section 2: Berlin and Nuclear Statagy
6: To Vienna and Back
7: The Berlin Anomaly
8: A Contest of Resolve
9: The Wall
10: Tests and Tension
11: Flexible Response
12: Berlin to Cuba
Section 3: Cuba
14: A Deniable Plan
15: A Undeniable Fiasco
16: Still Castro
17: Mongoose
18: Searching for Missiles
19: The Options Debated
20: Blockade
21: Military Steps
22: Political Steps
23: The Denoument
24: A Crisis Managed
25: Aftermath
26: Back to Square One
Section 4: Alliances and Detente
28: Towards a Test Ban
29: The Test Ban Treaty
30: Measured Response
Section 5: Vietnam
32: Laos
33: Commitment Without Combat
34: Deciding Not To Decide
35: The Taylor Report
36: Decisions
37: The Influence Of Laos
38: In the Dark
39: Coercion and Clients
40: Diem's Assassination
41: Kennedy to Johnson
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography