NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment, Nitze, Drew, NDU 1994 PB VG

Description: Institute for National Security Studies, NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment, with Analyses by Paul H. Nitze. Edited by S. Nelson Drew. NDU 1994. First Printing, September 1994. Softcover. 137 pp. This has been out of print as a book for some years, and has become hard to find. This is a "real" hard copy of the book, which was used as a text at NDU, The War College, and elsewhere. It contains the portions of NSC-68 that had been declassified in 1975 (some sections would only be declassified in the 1990s), along with an introduction and analysis by Paul Nitze, one of the principal drafters of the document, who at that time was Director of Policy Planning in under Dean Acheson in the Truman Administration. Nitze also contributes one of his lectures at the National War College addressing the post-Cold War need for a "new" version of NSC-68 in light of a entirely different international strategic challenge. Nitze was a senior government official from WWII through the Reagan administration, serving under almost every president except Eisenhower and Carter. Secretary of the Navy under Kennedy, he was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis executive committee, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Johnson, and an arms control negotiator under Nixon, and eventually Ambassador for Arms Control under Reagan. Wiki sez: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, better known as NSC 68, was a 66-page top secret U.S. National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department of Defense and presented to President Harry S. Truman on 7 April 1950. It was one of the most important American policy statements of the Cold War. In the words of scholar Ernest R. May, NSC 68 "provided the blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War from 1950 to the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s." NSC 68 and its subsequent amplifications advocated a large expansion in the military budget of the United States, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to allies of the United States. It made the rollback of global Communist expansion a high priority and rejected the alternative policies of détente and containment of the Soviet Union." In truth, NSC-68 was the cornerstone of US Cold War Strategy from adoption in 1950 -- at the time of the Korean War, through the end of the the Soviet Union -- through every administration.

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