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The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Ingo Trauschweizer
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Description for The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Hardcover. The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. This title chronicles the US Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 29 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 721.
The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing how it evolved, redefined its mission more than once, and ultimately transformed itself.Trauschweizer describes how, beginning in the 1950s, the army faced an unprecedented problem: how to maintain a combat-ready fighting force that could operate on both conventional and nuclear battlefields. Faced with shifting threats to national security, budgetary battles, and unstable political ... Read more
The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing how it evolved, redefined its mission more than once, and ultimately transformed itself.Trauschweizer describes how, beginning in the 1950s, the army faced an unprecedented problem: how to maintain a combat-ready fighting force that could operate on both conventional and nuclear battlefields. Faced with shifting threats to national security, budgetary battles, and unstable political ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615780
SKU
V9780700615780
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About Ingo Trauschweizer
Ingo Trauschweizer is visiting assistant professor of history at New Mexico Tech. He has also taught at Norwich University and the University of Maryland.
Reviews for The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
An exceptional, in-depth analysis of the role played by the U.S. Army in American strategy during and immediately after the Cold War.... Indispensable for anyone attempting to understand that period or the Army's thinking in its current efforts to develop Future Combat Systems. Dale R. Herspring, author of Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power ""Few authors illuminate the details and ... Read more