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The Fifty-year War
Norman Friedman
其他書名
Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
出版Naval Institute Press, 2000
主題History / Military / StrategyHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / Cold WarPolitical Science / Security (National & International)Political Science / World / General
ISBN15575026419781557502643
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cApnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy "peace" enforced by mutually assured destruction via atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III, conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war and allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. Friedman is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, he connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology?