Retreat from doomsday : the obsolescence of major war

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Retreat from doomsday : the obsolescence of major war

Title:

Retreat from doomsday : the obsolescence of major war

Author:

Mueller, John E.

ISBN:

9780465069392

9780465069408

Personal Author:

Mueller, John E.

Publication Information:

New York : Basic Books, c1989.

Physical Description:

viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Subject Term:

World politics -- 20th century.

Military history, Modern -- 20th century.

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In 'Retreat from Doomsday', John Mueller traces the major Cold War crises of the postwar era - Korea, Cuba, Vietnam - and concludes that despite their revolutionary and expansionist ideology, former Soviet leaders never saw major war as a sensible tactic.

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