Title America's strategic blunders : intelligence analysis and national security policy, 1936-1991 / Willard C. Matthias

Published University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 367 pages ; 24 cm Contents 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 Detente -- 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 Danger -- 15. The Road to Peace: 1983-1991 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Cold War. Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089 LC no. 00022029 ISBN 0271020660 (cloth : alk. paper)

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