Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy, 1953-61

by S. Dockrill

Overview

The New Look sought to formulate a more selective and flexible response to Communist challenges. The New Look was not simply a ‘bigger bang for a buck' nor merely a device for achieving a balanced budget, nor did it amount solely to a strategy of massive retaliation, as is commonly assumed. Dr Dockrill's incisive revisionist analysis of the subject throws new light on US ambitious global strategy during the Eisenhower years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312158804
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/21/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Saki Dockrill is Lecturer in War Studies, King's College, London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Preface - Introduction - From Truman to Eisenhower - The Road to NSC 162/2 - The ‘New Look' in Nuclear Deterrence Strategy - Collective Security in Western Europe - The Challenge in Asia and Europe - Aspirations for Atomic Peace - Indirect Approach and Liberation - The Soviet Economic and Technical Challenge - Facing the Nuclear Equation - Realities behind the New Look: Sputnik and After - Eisenhower's Final Struggles-Deterrence, Negotiations and Defence Budgeting - Conclusion - Notes - Appendices -Select Bibliography - Index