Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
NSC Review
Author: National Science Council Review
Author: NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War
Author: Curt CardwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139498231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy.
Military Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Department of State Bulletin
Author: National Security Policy, 1969 - 1972: Vol. XXXIV
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War
Author: John GansPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631494570
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
“The NSC, part star chamber, part gladiator arena, and part Game of Thrones drama is expertly revealed to us in the pages of Gans’ primer on Washington power.” — Kurt Campbell, Chairman of the Asia Group, LLC Since its founding more than seventy years ago, the National Security Council has exerted more influence on the president’s foreign policy decisions—and on the nation’s conflicts abroad—than any other institution or individual. And yet, until the explosive Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member. “A must-read for anyone interested in how Washington really works” (Ivo H. Daalder), White House Warriors finally reveals how the NSC evolved from a handful of administrative clerks to, as one recent commander-in-chief called them, the president’s “personal band of warriors.” When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to make what became known as the NSC staff his own, selectively hiring bright young aides to do his bidding during the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation, the fraught Cuban Missile Crisis, and the deepening Vietnam War. Despite Kennedy’s death and the tragic outcome of some of his decision, the NSC staff endured. President Richard Nixon handed the staff’s reigns solely to Henry Kissinger, who, given his controlling instincts, micromanaged its work on Vietnam. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s NSC was cast into turmoil by overreaching staff members who, led by Oliver North, nearly brought down a presidency in the Iran-Contra scandal. Later, when President George W. Bush’s administration was bitterly divided by the Iraq War, his NSC staff stepped forward to write a plan for the Surge in Iraq. Juxtaposing extensive archival research with new interviews, Gans demonstrates that knowing the NSC staff’s history and its war stories is the only way to truly understand American foreign policy. As this essential account builds to the swift removals of advisors General Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon in 2017, we see the staff’s influence in President Donald Trump’s still chaotic administration and come to understand the role it might play in its aftermath. A revelatory history written with riveting DC insider detail, White House Warriors traces the path that has led us to an era of American aggression abroad, debilitating fights within the government, and whispers about a deep state conspiring against the public.
NSC Review
Author: Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy
Author: United States. Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Department of State Appropriations Authorization, Fiscal Year 1973
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description