Rearming Germany
By: edited by James S. Corum
Series: History of warfare -- v. 64; History of warfare -- v. 64.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9789004203174
Subjects: Cold War; National security; Defenses; Military History; Armed Forces; Military policy; History
Other titles: Re-arming Germany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginning of rearmament; title: The Himmerod memorandum and the beginning of West German security policy / Thomas Vogel; title: Adenauer, Amt Blank, and the founding of the Bundeswehr, 1950-1956 / James S. Corum; title: The debate within German society; title: A reasonable "Yes" : the Social Democrats and West German rearmament, 1945-1956 / Adam Seipp; title: The Allied powers and the creation of a new German armed forces; title: Reviving Germany : the Schuman plan / Jonathan M. House; title: American assistance to the new German Army and Luftwaffe / James S. Corum; title: Establishing the Bundesmarine : the convergence of central planning and pre-existing maritime organizations, 1950-1956 / Douglas Carl Peifer; title: The economics of German rearmament; title: German industry, the Cold War, and the Bundeswehr / Oliver Haller; title: Reasons of state : a military and foreign trade necessity : the international mix of armaments in the build-up phase of the Bundeswehr, 1953-1958 / Dieter H. Kollmer; title: Debates within the Bundeswehr about organization and doctrine; title: The battle over "Innere Fuehrung" / Klaus Naumann; title: The service staffs' struggle over structure : the Bundeswehr's internal debates on adopting NATO doctrine, 1950-1963 / Martin Rink; title: The other Germany : creating the DDR's armed forces; title: Failure to command : the political underpinnings of the failure of the Nationale Volksarmee as a social institution / Dan Jordan.