Strategic power : USA/USSR

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Strategic power : USA/USSR

edited by Carl G. Jacobsen ; assisting editorial board,: Ken Booth, Bill Kincade, David R. Jones

Macmillan, 1990

  • pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book highlights the impact and relevance of "strategic culture". This concept is particularly well-suited to covering a lot of ground and reaching multiple audiences. With them in mind the chapters have been designed as succint essays of synthesis on different aspects of the intertwined yet distinct strategic considerations of the USA and the USSR; they are conceptual, and not excessively academic, or technical. Each section contains essays contrasting United States and Soviet perceptions on specific topics. Each section closes with a sythesizing commentary, to help readers to get a better sense of differences and similarities.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Strategic culture in theory and practice: the concept of strategic culture - Caveat Emptor
  • American national style and strategic culture
  • Soviet strategic culture
  • US perceptions of Soviet threat
  • Soviet perception of US threat
  • United States strategic policy since 1945
  • Soviet strategic policy since 1945
  • the concept of strategic culture affirmed. Part 2 Comparative concepts: the US approach to deterrence
  • US thinking about arms competition and arms control
  • the arms race and arms control - Soviet views
  • escallation/limited war - the US view
  • Soviet views of escalation/limited war
  • strategic stability/superiority
  • the US view
  • Soviet views on strategic stability/superiority
  • crisis management, the US approach
  • crisis management, the Soviet approach
  • strategic defence - USA
  • Soviet strategic and civil defence
  • comparative concepts - commentary. Part 3 Processes: decision-making in defence - the US case
  • decision-making in defence - the Soviet case
  • the economic dimension of defence - the United States
  • the economic dimension of Soviet security
  • the US military-industrial complex
  • Moscow's military-industrial complex
  • management of the defence industry - the United States
  • mangement of the defence industry - the Soviet Union
  • the United States and NATO
  • the impact of neighbours and allies, the Soviet case. Part 4 Use of force: American thinking in nucliar war
  • Soviet thinking in nuclear war
  • use of the military instrument short of war - the United States
  • use of the military instrument short of war, the Soviet Union. Part 5 Contemporary issues: the changing American strategic environment
  • the changing Soviet strategic environment
  • the US navy in the nuclear age
  • Soviet naval strategy
  • new thinking - the Western debate on strategy and security
  • new thinking in Soviet security policy
  • contemporary issues - some Soviet comments
  • management of contemporary issues - a Western commentary.

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