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Maxwell Taylor's Cold War
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Maxwell Taylor's Cold War

From Berlin to Vietnam
BookHardcover
EUR35,00

Product description

The major themes of Taylor's career, how to prepare the armed forces for global threats and localized conflicts and how to devise sound strategy and policy for a full spectrum of threats, remain timely and the concerns he raised about the nature of the national security apparatus have not been resolved.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8131-7700-7
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
FormatSewn
Publishing date19/04/2019
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 160 mm, Height 226 mm, Thickness 25 mm
Weight544 g
Article no.18662063
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A35521529
Product groupBU949
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Ingo Trauschweizer is associate professor and director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. His book The Cold War US Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War won the Distinguished Book Prize of the Society for Military History. He is the coeditor of Failed States and Fragile Societies.

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