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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) description
Was the Cold War inevitable? Was there an international communist conspiracy? Did Castro and Khrushchev beat Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis? After combing through a mass of declassified and previously unavailable documentation to reconsider the collision of the American and Soviet empires, Yale professor Gaddis replies in the affirmative. Given Josef Stalin's convictions, the Cold War was inescapable: it is the choices that each side made that prove fruitful for historical research, and not the mere fact of the war, as Gaddis neatly demonstrates. The American empire--Gaddis's term--prevailed because, he says, "democracy proved superior to autocracy in maintaining coalitions," and not necessarily because of any technological or economic advantage. Gaddis dispels several misconceptions and urges that students of Cold War history should foremost "retain the capacity to be surprised." |
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Provoking the Bear....
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It's almost impossible to defend dictators who always overstay their historical need, however, we tend to leave out some of the historical facts that may be a part of the problem.
We (USA) sent 15,000 troops into Russia in 1918 to fight the bolsheviks. In addition, Harry Truman authorized overflights of Russia in 1950 using the new Boeing B-47 as a reconnaissance platform. Some histories point out that up to 200 military personnel were lost in these overflights.
I would say that this kind of activity is 'somewhat' provocative and might cause the Russians some concern, particularly in regard to our (USA's) motives AND intentions.
We (the USA) then added the U-2 spy plane into the mix in 1956 and we denied sending this plane over Russian territory. Until, of course, the loss of a U-2 in 1960.
So the Russian Bear really had a dance partner and if the dance partner didn't create the problem, it certainly didn't help to solve the problem and this added to Russia's paranoia!!!!!
JL GADDIS is a house toady. And he teaches at the school that has a long tradition of providing candidates to the Central Intelligence Agency, whose reputation is overstated and whose greatest claim to fame is taking on and SOMETIMES defeating 3rd world countries and governments.
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