Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War

by Ingo Trauschweizer

Book Overview

The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing how it evolved, redefined its mission more than once, and ultimately transformed itself. Trauschweizer describes how, beginning in the 1950s, the army faced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615784
• ISBN13: 9780700615780
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"