Atlas of Global Strategy

by Lawrence Freedman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816010587
• ISBN13: 9780816010585
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bear v. Eagle

This book was printed in the mid-1980s as a primer on military strategy for students of the pending Cold War. Anyone who owns this has, inadvertently, purchased themselves a wonderful piece of history, especially if you still have the maps on the dust-jacket featuring the two sides' encroachment on each other. There are sections on nuclear technolgogy, wars of "liberation," the arms market, European deployment, biochemical warfare, air and naval power at a time when the B-2 was only just deployed and stealth technology was just a twinkle in Caspar Weinberger's eye. While the strategic studies institutes have moved on, Cold War histories are burgeoning, and it will not be long before a book like this gets issued (or re-issued) so that readers will be able to understand what the battle of the superpowers meant (and how lucky we are that it is no longer underway).