Grand Strategy That Won the Cold War : Architecture of Triumph

Streusand, Douglas E. (EDT); Bailey, Norman A. (EDT); Marlo, Francis H. (EDT); Clark, William P. (FRW); Allen, Richard V. (CON)

ISBN 10: 1498530508 / ISBN 13: 9781498530507

Editore: Lexington Books, 2017

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Titolo: Grand Strategy That Won the Cold War : ...

Casa editrice: Lexington Books

Data di pubblicazione: 2017

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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.

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Douglas E. Streusand is professor of international relations at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics.

Norman A. Bailey is professor of economics and national security at the Center for National Security Studies at the University of Haifa and professor of economic statecraft at the Institute of World Politics. He served as President Reagan’s special assistant for national security and international economic affairs from 1981 to 1984 and in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in 2006–2007.

Francis H. Marlo is associate professor of international relations at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.