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Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War

Architecture of Triumph
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This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little credit for the end of the Cold War, with most of credit going to Mikhail Gorbachev; that Reagan's management of the National Security Council staff was singularly inept; and that the United States is incapable of generating and implementing a grand strategy that employs all the instruments of national power and coordinates the work of all executive agencies. The Reagan years were hardly a time of interagency concord, but the National Security Council staff managed the successful implementation of its program nonetheless.
Part I: Ronald W. Reagan and the Cold War Chapter One: The Historiography of the End of the Cold War, Francis H. Marlo Chapter Two: Ronald Reagan: the Spirit of Behind the Strategy, Francis H. Marlo Chapter Three: The Cold War in Context, Norman A. Bailey Chapter Four: On the National Security Council Staff, Richard Pipes Part II: The Grand Strategy That Won the Cold War Chapter Five: Defining the Strategy: NSDD 75, Norman A. Bailey Chapter Six: Political and Ideological Warfare, John Lenczowski Chapter Seven: Public Diplomacy and Psychological Warfare, Carnes Lord Chapter Eight: Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Collapse of Communism: An Historic Confluence, Richard V. Allen Chapter Nine: The Economic Instruments of Power, Roger W. Robinson Chapter Ten: Military Display: Continuity of Government and the Strategic Defense Initiative, Ronald B. Frankum Part III: Conclusions Chapter Eleven: Setting the Record Straight, Derek Leebaert
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