From hot war to cold [electronic resource] : the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / Jeffrey G. Barlow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.Description: xii, 710 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 359/.03097309044 22
LOC classification:
  • VA58 .B37 2009eb
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Contents:
Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-682) and index.

Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.

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