Maxwell Taylor's Cold War (eBook)

From Berlin to Vietnam

Ingo Trauschweizer (Autor)

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2019
328 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7702-1 (ISBN)

Infos

General Maxwell Taylor served at the nerve centers of US military policy and Cold War strategy and experienced firsthand the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as crises in Berlin and Cuba. Along the way he became an adversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's nuclear deterrence strategy and a champion of President John F. Kennedy's shift toward Flexible Response. Taylor also remained a public critic of defense policy and civil-military relations into the 1980s and was one of the most influential American soldiers, strategists, and diplomats. However, many historians describe him as a politicized, dishonest manipulator whose actions deeply affected the national security establishment and had lasting effects on civil-military relations in the United States.In Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam, author Ingo Trauschweizer traces the career of General Taylor, a Kennedy White House insider and architect of American strategy in Vietnam. Working with newly accessible and rarely used primary sources, including the Taylor Papers and government records from the Cold War crisis, Trauschweizer describes and analyzes this polarizing figure in American history. The major themes of Taylor's career, how to prepare the armed forces for global threats and localized conflicts and how to devise sound strategy and policy for a full spectrum of threats, remain timely and the concerns he raised about the nature of the national security apparatus have not been resolved.

Autor

lt;P>Ingo Trauschweizer is associate professor and director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. His book The Cold War US Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War won the Distinguished Book Prize of the Society for Military History. He is the coeditor of Failed States and Fragile Societies .

Inhalt

West PointCold War FrontiersReformer and Strategist?Camelot's StrategistArchitect of the Vietnam WarWise Man?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: American Warriors Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Warriors Series
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Berlin Crisis • Cold War • Counterinsurgency • Diplomacy • Flexible Response • foreign policy • International Relations • joint chiefs of staff • Joints Chief of Staff • Korean War • Military Strategy • National Security Council • Nuclear Arms Race • Politics • US Military Academy • Vietnam War
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7702-2 / 0813177022
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7702-1 / 9780813177021