Waging Peace How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy

by Bowie, Robert R.; Immerman, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780195140484
• ISBN10: 0195140486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and sustainable strategy for addressing the issues unique to the nuclear age. To this end, he designated a decision-making system centered around the National Security Council to take full advantage of the expertise and data from various departments and agencies and of the judgment of his principal advisors. The result was the formation of a "long haul" strategy of preventing war and Soviet expansion and of mitigating Soviet hostility. Only now, in the aftermath of the Cold War, can Eisenhower's achievement be fully appreciated. This book will be of much interest to scholars and students of the Eisenhower era, diplomatic history, the Cold War, and contemporary foreign policy.

Author Biography

Robert R. Bowie is Emeritus Director of the Center for International Studies at Harvard University. Richard H. Immerman is a Professor at the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
General Andrew J. Goodpaster
Introduction	3	(6)
Part I Prologue	9	(72)
The Truman Legacy	11	(30)
The Prepresidential Eisenhower	41	(14)
The Presecretarial Dulles	55	(15)
Campaigning for Security with Solvency	70	(11)
Part II Processes and Inputs	81	(66)
Organizing for National Security	83	(13)
How Much Is Enough?	96	(13)
A Chance for Peace?	109	(14)
The Solarium Exercise	123	(16)
Preparing the Basic National Security Strategy	139	(8)
Part III The Strategy	147	(96)
The Sino--Soviet Threat	149	(9)
Strategic Objectives: Rollback?	158	(20)
Military Strategy	178	(24)
Strengthening the Noncommunist World	202	(20)
Reducing the Nuclear Danger: Arms Control	222	(21)
Part IV Epilogue	243	(18)
The Eisenhower Legacy	245	(16)
Notes	261	(46)
Index	307