The Grand Strategy That Won the Cold War
by Douglas E. Streusand (Editor, Contribution by)Norman A. Bailey (Editor, Contribution by)Francis H. Marlo (Editor, Contribution by)William P. Clark (Foreword by)Richard V. Allen (Contribution by)Ronald B. Frankum (Contribution by)Derek Leebaert (Contribution by)John Lenczowski (Contribution by)Carnes Lord (Contribution by)Richard Pipes (Contribution by)Roger W. Robinson (Contribution by)Paul D. Gelpi (Editor)Ronald B. Frankum (Contribution by)
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This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little credit for the end of the Cold War, with most of credit going to Mikhail Gorbachev; that Reagan's management of the National Security Council staff was singularly inept; and that the United States is incapable of generating and implementing a grand strategy that employs all the instruments of national power and coordinates the work of all executive agencies. The Reagan years were hardly a time of interagency concord, but the National Security Council staff managed the successful implementation of its program nonetheless.
| ISBN-13 | 9780739188309 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0739188305 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 296 pages |
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| Published On | 2016-01-15 |
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