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El. knyga: Nuclear Weapons And Foreign Policy

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  • Formatas: 476 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780429716362
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  • Formatas: 476 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780429716362
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This book describes the impact of nuclear weapons on U.S. foreign policy and attempts to modify assumptions about war, diplomacy and the nature of peace. It sets the considerations on which policy and strategy may be based and the pitfall of traditional concepts about the nature of security.
Foreword vii
Gordon Dean
Preface xi
Part One THE PROBLEMS OF SURVIVAL
1 The Challenge of the Nuclear Ace
3(18)
The relation of force and diplomacy
3(4)
The nature of strategic doctrine
7(1)
American history and our antidoctrinal bias
8(5)
The nature of the new technology
13(5)
Strategic doctrine and national policy
18(3)
2 The Dilemma of American Security
21(44)
The impact of the new technology on the traditional roles and missions of the services
22(4)
The Key West agreement
26(2)
The impact of World War II on United States strategic thought
28(2)
The notion of surprise attack
30(1)
The notion of all-out war
30(2)
The notion of technological superiority
32(1)
The atom bomb
32(2)
Some second thoughts about the notion of all-out war---the B-36 hearings
34(1)
The policy of containment
34(9)
The Korean war
43(11)
The impact of the Korean war on United States strategic thinking
54(2)
The notion of deterrence
56(3)
The strategic transformation of the nuclear age
59(6)
Part Two TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGY
3 The Fires of Prometheus
65(21)
The vulnerability of the modern city
65(2)
The range of available weapons
67(1)
The impact from blast and heat of an attack with modern weapons
68(5)
The phenomenon of fall-out and its consequences
73(6)
The genetic effects of modern weapons
79(4)
The danger of strontium-go
83(3)
4 The Esoteric Strategy---Principles of All-Out War
86(46)
The nature of all-out war
87(1)
The historical prerequisites of total victory
88(2)
The significance of industrial potential
90(3)
The significance of forces-in-being
93(1)
The strategy of all-out war
94(2)
A comparison of opposing offensive capabilities
96(8)
A comparison of opposing defensive capabilities
104(7)
United States vulnerabilities
111(7)
The nature of a technological breakthrough
118(3)
The impact of missiles on strategy
121(4)
The nature of nuclear stalemate
125(7)
5 What Price Deterrence? The Problems of Limited War
132(42)
The relationship of deterrence to strategy
132(4)
The nature of limited war
136(4)
Military planning and limited war
140(1)
Limited war in the nuclear age
141(4)
Limited war and the nature of war aims
145(4)
Limited war and United States strategy
149(5)
Limited war and industrial potential
154(2)
The weapons systems of limited war
156(11)
The diplomacy of limited war
167(7)
6 The Problems of Limited Nuclear War
174(29)
The arguments against limited nuclear war
174(2)
The problem of war between nuclear powers
176(3)
The strategic revolution caused by the new technology
179(1)
The tactics appropriate to the new technology
180(6)
The risks of the new strategy
186(3)
The opportunities of the new strategy
189(1)
For Deterrence
189(1)
For the conduct of war
190(2)
For preventing all-out war
192(2)
Nuclear strategy reconsidered
194(9)
7 Diplomacy, Disarmament and the Limitation of War
203(34)
The framework of diplomacy
203(1)
The contemporary challenge to diplomacy
204(2)
Diplomacy and the elimination of war
206(3)
The complexity of disarmament
209(2)
The problems of effective international inspection
211(3)
The difficulty of preventing surprise attack
214(5)
The proposals of world government
219(3)
Diplomacy and the limitation of war
222(2)
Limited war re-examined
224(2)
The diplomacy appropriate for it
226(11)
Part Three STRATEGY AND POLICY
8 The Impact of Strategy on Allies and the Uncommitted
237(32)
The historical role of coalitions
237(2)
The purpose of the United States system of alliances
239(1)
The relationship between strategy and coalition policy
240(6)
The scope and limits of coalition policy
246(9)
The problem of the uncommitted powers
255(1)
The Historical Roots
255(3)
The Psychological Problem
258(3)
The Military Problem
261(3)
The Political Problem
264(2)
The responsibilities of leadership
266(3)
9 American Strategy and NATO---A Test Case
269(47)
The dilemmas of NATO
269(5)
British reactions to the nuclear age
274(12)
German reactions to the nuclear age
286(11)
French reactions to the nuclear age
297(9)
The new significance of NATO
306(1)
NATO and the local defense of Europe
307(4)
The role of the United States in NATO strategy
311(2)
The responsibility of our allies for NATO strategy
313(1)
NATO as a test case
314(2)
10 The Strategy of Ambiguity---Sino-Soviet Strategic Thought
316(46)
The nature of revolution
316(1)
Diplomacy in a revolutionary period
317(3)
The challenge of the Soviet revolution
320(4)
The principles of Soviet thought
324(11)
The Soviet attitude toward diplomatic negotiations
335(5)
The Soviet theory of war
340(1)
The impact of Clausewitz
340(4)
Mao's theory of protracted war
344(6)
Prospects for Soviet policy
350(12)
11 The Soviet Union and the Atom
362(1)
The challenge of the United States atomic monopoly
362(1)
The reaction of the Soviet leadership
362(2)
The deprecation of nuclear weapons
364(6)
The development of a distinctive Soviet military theory
370(2)
The use of peace offensives and attempts to "outlaw" nuclear weapons
372(7)
The consequences of the growing Soviet nuclear stockpile
379(5)
The trend toward acceptance of nuclear stalemate
384(1)
The triumph of the Party Militant
385(6)
The use of atomic blackmail
391(2)
The development of new military doctrine
393(4)
Soviet vulnerabilities to war
397(6)
12 The Need for Doctrine
403(34)
The role of strategic doctrine
403(2)
The need for United States doctrine
405(1)
The organizational obstacles to strategic doctrine
406(1)
The Problems of roles and missions of the services
406(3)
The Budgetary Process
409(8)
Organizational remedies to promote strategic doctrine
417(1)
The Department of Defense
418(4)
The Budgetary Process
422(2)
American attitudes and strategic thought
424(7)
The problems of leadership
431(6)
Bibliography 437
Professor Henry A. Kissinger took leave from Harvard to serve as Assistant to President Nixon for National Security Affairs.