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America's Strategic Blunders : Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991 /

This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U. S. national intelligence estimates with recently released Soviet documents disclosing the views of Soviet leaders and their Communist allies on the same events. Matthias shows that U. S. intelligence estimate...

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Autor principal: Matthias, Willard C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Intelligence Triumphs and Failures in World War II
  • 2 How the Cold War Began
  • 3 The Korean War: A Pivotal Event
  • 4 The 1950s: Evolving U.S. Views of the Soviet Threat
  • 5 1958-1960: A New Communist-Bloc Activism?
  • 6 1960: The Strategic Situation and Its Dangers
  • 7 President Kennedy's Crises
  • 8 The Estimate That Changed the World
  • 9 Prophecies and Events of the 1960s
  • 10 The Nixon Era and the Beginning of Détente
  • 11 The Early 1970s: A New World Environment
  • 12 Renewal of the Cold War
  • 13 An Assault upon the National Intelligence Process
  • 14 The Early 1980s: Years of Dan
  • 15 The Road to Peace: 1983-1991
  • References
  • Index