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The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Struggle Over Policy
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This book tells the story of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the struggle that President Kennedy and his advisers (including the author, who was head of intelligence at the State Department) went through to try to understand why the Soviet Union had put nuclear missiles in Cuba, the alternative policies they debated to deal with the presence of the missiles, the aftermath of the crisis, and the lessons learned about defense and foreign policy in an age dominated by intercontinental missiles tipped with nuclear warheads capable of obliterating the northern hemisphere. The purpose of the book is to focus the world's attention on the fact that something must be done - and soon - if we are to avoid Armageddon.

Author Biography:

ROGER HILSMAN graduated from West Point in 1943, was severely wounded serving with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, and later commanded a battalion of guerrillas operating behind the enemy lines. He He earned masters and doctoral degrees in world politics at Yale, taught at Princeton, and then served as deputy director of the Congressional Research Service. In 1961 President Kennedy appointed him Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and later Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. In 1964, he resigned to accept a professorship at Columbia University. He has authored or coauthored 14 books examining American foreign policy and diplomatic and military affairs. His wartime memoir, American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines was published in 1990.
Release date NZ
March 20th, 1996
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
192
Dimensions
163x240x25
ISBN-13
9780275954352
Product ID
7016828

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