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Eisenhower and the Missile Gap (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

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Here is a book written for a scholarly audience (read "college textbook"), which accounts for its price and writing style. Like most textbooks, it tells you what it's going to say, goes into it in great detail, and then sums it up. The book is vital for any student of Eisenhower, but also anyone who keeps an eye on current affairs. Details how the Eisenhower Administration dealt with a myth put forward by Congressional Democrats that the United States was falling behind the Soviet Union in terms of military might. (See how some things never change?) Explores how the White House came up with what remains our basic defense policy today, namely reducing the size of traditional forces and relying more on nuclear missiles, "The New Look." You'll see how the Administration drafted this policy at the expense of things like "clean nuclear bombs," and so on. The author did a very good job researching this subject matter and it shows.