I. Introduction -- II. Reporting abroad at Harvard -- III. Desk-bound in the Bureau of Aeronautics -- IV. Serving on Admiral Towers' and Admiral Nimitz' staffs -- V. Learning radar and fighter direction -- VI. Carrier duty at last! -- VII. Shaking down the Langley -- VIII. Return to Pearl Harbor -- IX. The capture of Kwajalein, Majuro and Eniwetok -- X. Espiritu Santo and the first strikes on P…
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-452) and index
This work traces the development of the USA and Russia, later USSR, from 1898 through to 2000, placing the Cold War, from inception to ending, into the wider social, economic and political context
"With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes the violence was between Third World countries such as the Iran-Iraq War, and sometimes it involved t…
Professor Kagan reveals the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of our own century
The year is 2001. In a surprise two-pronged dawn sweep, Chinese war-planes attack Vietnamese naval and airforce installations, plunging the world into crisis. A fiction - or "faction"--Written in the style of non-fiction, this thriller reveals what a future world crisis could be like.