The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

Author : J. Nathan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137114622
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited written by J. Nathan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling revelations of the extant wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. The collection, edited by a long-time student of the crisis, is a coherent, original, and up-to-date work that bears on a moment when the world, for good cause, held its breath in fear that the morning might bring the apocalypse.

Author : James A. Nathan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312097257
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited written by James A. Nathan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited provides a comprehensive overview of the new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling challenges to the conventional wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. This important collection, edited by a long-time student of the crisis, is a coherent, original, and up-to-date work that bears on a moment when the world, for good cause, held its breath in fear that the morning might bring the apocalypse.

Author : Mark J. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908857040
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years On written by Mark J. White and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393341539
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Robert F. Kennedy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.

Author : Alex Mintz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796777
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polythink Syndrome written by Alex Mintz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other relevant possibilities. But presidential advisory groups are often fragmented and divisive. This book therefore scrutinizes polythink, a group decision-making dynamic whereby different members in a decision-making unit espouse a plurality of opinions and divergent policy prescriptions, resulting in a disjointed decision-making process or even decision paralysis. The book analyzes eleven national security decisions, including the national security policy designed prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the decisions to enter into and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2007 "surge" decision, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program, the UN Security Council decision on the Syrian Civil War, the faltering Kerry Peace Process in the Middle East, and the U.S. decision on military operations against ISIS. Based on the analysis of these case studies, the authors address implications of the polythink phenomenon, including prescriptions for avoiding and/or overcoming it, and develop strategies and tools for what they call Productive Polythink. The authors also show the applicability of polythink to business, industry, and everyday decisions.

Author : Richard E. Neustadt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801436222
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report to JFK written by Richard E. Neustadt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Anglo-American crisis arose from a massive misunderstanding between the two governments. The British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, had been operating on the assumption that Washington would proceed with, and sell for British use, an airborne missile system named Skybolt. In its defense planning the United Kingdom relied on Skybolt to sustain its nuclear deterrence. The Americans, however, decided to cancel the program. This decision rocked the British government and seriously strained Anglo-American relations, while its hasty resolution gave President de Gaulle of France an excuse to veto British membership in the European Economic Community."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume adds to the report itself Kennedy's comments about it, a glossary, a cast of characters, new information gleaned from recently declassified British files, and Neustadt's comparison of British and American governments both at the time of the Skybolt affair and at present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n
Publisher : Cold War International History
ISBN 13 : 9780804762014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis written by Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n and published by Cold War International History. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.

Author : Ariel Levite
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231063746
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence and Strategic Surprises written by Ariel Levite and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Munton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199795703
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by Don Munton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role that differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to relevant literature and film for those who wish to explore further. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the crisis, this revised and updated edition of The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: