From the Introduction: "Chapter 1 discusses Reagan's efforts to implement his foreign policy priorities by pushing through Congress a sweeping military modernization program. David Stockman, Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, put Reagan's budget into perspective in the March 19, 1981, meeting: "In 1980 the total Department of Defense and security assistance budget was $148 billion. The budget submitted by the Reagan Administration by March 10 called for a total of $233 billion. This represents a 54 percent increase in two years." Chapter 2 discusses how sensitive intelligence in December 1981 indicated that the Soviet Union was preparing to invade Poland in an effort to suppress democratic reforms gained by the Solidarity labor movement. The NSC met several times, including four meetings in five days, to decide how best to support Solidarity without provoking a Soviet invasion."If we don't take action now," Reagan told his advisers on December 21, "three or four years from now we'll have another situation and will wonder why we didn't go for it when we had the whole country with us. I am tired of looking backward." ... Days later, even though the Soviets did not invade, Reagan ordered sanctions against the Soviet Union designed to restrict high-technology the Soviets were believed to need to complete a trans-Siberian oil and gas pipeline. The sanctions policy, the subject of Chapter Three, made for contentious meetings, because allied cooperation was necessary for the sanctions to be effective... "President Roosevelt called for a quarantine on Germany in 1939," Reagan said in a September 22, 1982, NSC meeting. "He had his brains kicked out. What would history have been like if he had been listened to?" ... Please purchase "The Reagan Files" to continue reading about Reagan's efforts to win the Cold War.

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