Title: The Cold War : a military history /
Authors: Freedman, Lawrence; Keegan, John, 1934-2012
Publisher: Cassell & Co.,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Cold War History.; Military history, Modern; Cold War
Abstract: A photographic history of the Cold War from 1945 through 1991, focusing on the dominant themes of strategic thinking and military planning among the major powers of the period, and examining significant conflicts and crises that changed the way in which the prospect of further war was approached by the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Contents: Chronology -- Introduction: Power and ideology -- The origins of the Cold War -- Early thoughts about future war -- Air power and nuclear deterrence: Korea -- The arms race: massive retaliation and limited war -- Tactical nuclear weapons -- Preparing for nuclear war -- The new nuclear strategy -- Crisis management -- Berlin -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Cuban missile crisis -- Conventional strategy -- France's dissent -- Mutual Assured Destruction -- Vietnam: guerrilla warfare -- Propping up Diem -- After the assassinations -- Rolling Thunder to Linebacker -- Detente -- Soviet power -- Arms control -- The rediscovery of the operational art -- The lessons of war -- The Indo-Pakistan wars -- Arab-Israeli conflict -- The Falklands War -- The Iran-Iraq War -- Afghanistan -- The end of the Cold War -- Nuclear options -- The Berlin Wall falls -- The war that did not happen -- Biographies -- Further reading