From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 - Couverture rigide

Barlow, Jeffrey G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080475666X ISBN 13 : 9780804756662

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the early postwar fighting in China between the Nationalists and the Communists, the formation of NATO, the outbreak of the Korean War, the decision of the Eisenhower Administration not to intervene in the Viet Minh troops' siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, and the initiation of the Eisenhower "New Look" defense policy. The author relies upon information obtained from a wide range of primary sources and personal interviews with important, senior Navy and Army officers. The result is a book that provides the reader with a new way of looking at these pivotal events.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey G. Barlow has been a historian in the Contemporary History Branch of the Naval Historical Center since 1987. He is the author of Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950, co-winner of the John Lyman Book Award for Naval History from the North American Society for Oceanic History in 1995.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080475666X
• ISBN 13: 9780804756662
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 728
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible