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- catalog abstract ""For fifty years the Cold War shaped our lives and divided our world, and its influence will be felt for decades to come. While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy "peace" enforced by mutually assured destruction via atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III, conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war and allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. Friedman is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, he connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology? Did the West win or did inherent flaws doom the Soviet system from the start?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11603866.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""For fifty years the Cold War shaped our lives and divided our world, and its influence will be felt for decades to come. While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy "peace" enforced by mutually assured destruction via atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III, conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war and allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. Friedman is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, he connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology? Did the West win or did inherent flaws doom the Soviet system from the start?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-576) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Setting the Stage. 1. War and Communism. 2. Stalin's Soviet Union. 3. The West in 1945. 4. The Nuclear Revolution in Warfare -- pt. 2. Outbreak. 5. Initial Probes. 6. Open War. 7. The Marshall Plan and NATO. 8. Tito and Mao. 9. Rising Nationalism. 10. Stalin's Military Buildup. 11. Countering Stalin's Hordes -- pt. 3. Crises in a Nuclear World. 12. Living with Stalin's Bomb: NSC 68. 13. The "Super" 14. Crisis in the East. 15. Defending Europe. 16. Crisis: Indochina. 17. Enter Khrushchev. 18. The "New Look" 19. Khrushchev's "New Look" 20. Disaster via the Middle East -- pt. 4. Stalemate. 21. The Missile Race. 22. Crisis Time. 23. Kennedy and "Wars of National Liberation" 24. Crises in Europe and Cuba. 25. The McNamara Broom. 26. De Gaulle vs. NATO -- pt. 5. The West on the Defensive. 27. The Brezhnev Coup. 28. Vietnam. 29. Disaster. 30. Repression. 31. Peace without Victory. 32. Brezhnev's Buildups.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 597 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fifty-year War.".
- catalog identifier "1557502641 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fifty-year War.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "Fifty-year War.".
- catalog subject "327.1/09/045 21".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "D842 .F75 2000".
- catalog subject "Strategy.".
- catalog subject "World politics 1945-".
- catalog subject "World politics 1945-1989.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Setting the Stage. 1. War and Communism. 2. Stalin's Soviet Union. 3. The West in 1945. 4. The Nuclear Revolution in Warfare -- pt. 2. Outbreak. 5. Initial Probes. 6. Open War. 7. The Marshall Plan and NATO. 8. Tito and Mao. 9. Rising Nationalism. 10. Stalin's Military Buildup. 11. Countering Stalin's Hordes -- pt. 3. Crises in a Nuclear World. 12. Living with Stalin's Bomb: NSC 68. 13. The "Super" 14. Crisis in the East. 15. Defending Europe. 16. Crisis: Indochina. 17. Enter Khrushchev. 18. The "New Look" 19. Khrushchev's "New Look" 20. Disaster via the Middle East -- pt. 4. Stalemate. 21. The Missile Race. 22. Crisis Time. 23. Kennedy and "Wars of National Liberation" 24. Crises in Europe and Cuba. 25. The McNamara Broom. 26. De Gaulle vs. NATO -- pt. 5. The West on the Defensive. 27. The Brezhnev Coup. 28. Vietnam. 29. Disaster. 30. Repression. 31. Peace without Victory. 32. Brezhnev's Buildups.".
- catalog title "The fifty-year War : conflict and strategy in the Cold War / Norman Friedman.".
- catalog type "text".