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Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasnt fought. The reality, of course, is that many hot conflicts did occur, some with the great powers weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan M. House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold War, 19621991, a complex case study in the Clausewitzian relationship between policy and military force during a time of global upheaval and political realignment.This volume opens a new perspective on three fraught decades of Cold War history, revealing how the realities of time, distance, resources, and military culture often constrained and diverted the inclinations or policies of world leaders. In addition to the Vietnam War and nuclear confrontations between the USSR and the United States, this period saw dozens of regional wars and insurgencies fought throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Cuba, Pakistan, Indonesia, Israel, Egypt, and South Africa pursued their own goals in ways that drew the superpowers into regional disputes. Even clashes ostensibly unrelated to the politics of East-West confrontation, such as the Nigerian-Biafran conflict, the Falklands/Malvinas War, and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, involved armed forces, weapons, and tactics developed for the larger conflict and thus come under Houses scrutiny. His study also takes up nontraditional or specialized aspects of the period, including weapons of mass destruction, civil-military relations, civil defense, and control of domestic disorders.The result is a single, integrated survey and analysis of a complex period in geopolitical history, which fills a significant gap in our knowledge of the organization, logistics, operations, and tactics involved in conflict throughout the Cold War.

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CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS GENERAL EDITOR Gregory J W - photo 1

CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS

GENERAL EDITOR

Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ADVISORY BOARD

Lawrence E. Babits, Greenville, North Carolina

James C. Bradford, Texas A&M University, College Station

David M. Glantz, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Jerome A. Greene, Denver, Colorado

Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Stanford

Herman Hattaway, Leawood, Kansas

J. A. Houlding, Rckersdorf, Germany

Eugenia C. Kiesling, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York

Timothy K. Nenninger, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University

Timothy J. Stapleton, University of Calgary

A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR, 19621991

JONATHAN M. HOUSE

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

NORMAN

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ISBN 978-0-8061-6708-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-8061-6770-1 (ebook : mobipocket)

ISBN 978-0-8061-6774-9 (ebook : epub)

A Military History of the Cold War, 19621991is Volume 70 in the Campaigns and Commanders series.

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To the memory of Shannon Piper Serene, whose unquenchable thirst for knowledge helped inspire this study

CONTENTS

PREFACE

As in the first volume of this study, this book explores the military strategy and operational developments of the Cold Warthe process by which politicians and military officers designed, organized, and resourced military organizations and then deployed those organizations to deter or conduct conflicts within the context of the global antagonism between East and West.

That antagonism unified the entire period from 1945 to 1991, including major conflicts in China, Korea, Indochina, Africa, and the Middle East and more than forty insurgencies around the globe. During this epoch, virtually every military development in the world, even those whose motivations were ostensibly unrelated to the East-West rivalry, interacted with that rivalry at a military level. In Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, the two sides provided weapons, advisers, training, and in some instances complete military units that had enormous influence. The regional conflicts and civil wars that ensued would have been vastly different, and perhaps impossible, without the intrusion of these outside resources. Even civil disorders and domestic demonstrations influenced and were influenced by the military developments of the Cold War.

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