AmericaÕs Cold War

Download or read book AmericaÕs Cold War written by Campbell Craig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of AmericaÕs Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggleÕs continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.