Victory Without War 1958-1961

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. [6], 126, [4] pages. Endpaper map. Questions and Answers about Aircraft Carriers. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. George Fielding Eliot (22 June 1894 – 21 April 1971) was a Major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army. He was the author of 15 books on military and political matters in the 1930s through the 1960s, wrote a syndicated column on military affairs and was the military analyst on radio and on television for CBS News during World War II. In 1937 he wrote (with R. Ernest Dupuy) the widely cited "If War Comes." In 1938 he wrote "The ramparts we watch," a widely cited book which made predictions of the coming war and made recommendations for strengthening national defense. Eliot was a staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune for many years. He wrote books and articles about military strategy into the 1960s, for the press as well as the scholarly journal Foreign Affairs. This has become a classic of the Eisenhower Cold War period. The Soviets had launched Sputnik. There was a perceived missile gap. A land engagement in Europe was feared, as it might trigger the use of at least tactical nuclear weapons. It was on the Sea that the United States maintained its clear strategic advantage and key capabilities for force projection (as the Cuban quarantine would later show during the Cuban Missile Crisis). Eliot provides clear and compelling arguments that, as one of his chapters is titled, The Sea is Our Logical Battleground.). Condition: Very good / Good.

Keywords: Seapower, Sea Power, Aircraft Carriers, Cold War, Ballistic Missiles, Sea-launched, Fixed-base, James Killian, Sea-based Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

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