Contemporary Military Strategy
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. New Edition, Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xv, [3], 149, [1] pages. One explanatory footnote observed at page 35. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips, and is price clipped and taped to boards. Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is a longtime expert on U.S. foreign policy, arms control, civil liberties, and the workings of bureaucracies. He served in the Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama administrations. He has taught at Harvard University and as a visitor at other universities including Columbia, George Washington University, and Yale.
He has served in a number of roles with think tanks, including the Center for American Progress, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Twentieth Century Fund. From 1966 to 1967, Halperin served as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. At 29-years-old, from 1967 to 1969, he became the youngest ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Policy, Planning, and Arms Control). He joined the National Security Council in 1969 as the director of policy planning. Halperin and Henry Kissinger, Nixon's new National Security Advisor, had been colleagues at Harvard. Halperin is a prolific author and co-author of 25 books, including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. He also authored Strategy and Arms Control (with Thomas C. Schelling); Limited War in the Nuclear Age; and Contemporary Military Strategy. The contents include: The Role of Force in the Nuclear Age; Warfare in the Nuclear Age; Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods; The Evolution of American Military Strategy; Soviet Military Strategy; Chinese Military Strategy; General War: The Strategy of Sufficiency; Limited War: The Nature of the Limiting Process; Deterrence and Defense in Europe; Deterrence and Defense in Asia; Arms Control: SALT and NPT. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, Strategic Arms, Deterrence, Limited War, Soviet Military, Chinese Military, Quantitative Research, Qualitative Research, Nuclear War
ISBN: 0571047726
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