Author Colin Gray maintains that there are distinctive U.S. and Soviet national styles which come into play in each power's nuclear strategic planning. And the U.S.'s lack of understanding of the fundamental historical and anthropological factors that make up the Soviet national style has led to poor U.S. policy. Perhaps no issue is more critical for the U.S. as nuclear strategy planning; this book is a statement to be reckoned with in the surrounding debate. Co-published with Abt Books.
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Author Colin Gray maintains that there are distinctive U.S. and Soviet national styles which come into play in each power's nuclear strategic planning. And the U.S.'s lack of understanding of the fundamental historical and anthropological factors that make up the Soviet national style has led to poor U.S. policy.
About the Author, Colin S. Gray
Colin S. Gray is President of the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the author of several books, among them American Military Space Policy (UPA, 1983), Strategic Studies and Public Policy: The American Experience (1982), and Strategic Studies: A Critical Assessment (1982). His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Orbis and many others.
...his interpretations of the meaning of nuclear strategy in an age when defense is becoming technologically possible makes this book essential...integrates the various perspectives on strategic defense brilliantly.
— Richard Bissell, Editor, THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY
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Useful for upper-level students.
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- Richard Bissell
...his interpretations of the meaning of nuclear strategy in an age when defense is becoming technologically possible makes this book essential...integrates the various perspectives on strategic defense brilliantly.
