From hot war to cold : the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / / Jeffrey G. Barlow.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 710 p. |
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Table of 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.