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Maxwell Taylor's Cold War
From Berlin to Vietnam
In Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam, author Ingo Trauschweizer traces the career of General Taylor, a Kennedy White House insider and architect of American strategy in Vietnam. Working with newly accessible and rarely used primary sources, including the Taylor Papers and government records from the Cold War crisis, Trauschweizer describes and analyzes this polarizing figure in American history. The major themes of Taylor's career, how to prepare the armed forces for global threats and localized conflicts and how to devise sound strategy and policy for a full spectrum of threats, remain timely and the concerns he raised about the nature of the national security apparatus have not been resolved.
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Reviews
"The first scholarly study of one of the Cold War's most important military strategists. Trauschweizer's painstaking research reveals Taylor's vital role in the post–World War II development of the US Army, national military policy, and the Vietnam War."—Brian McAllister Linn, author of Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
"This is the best biography of one of America's most influential military leaders in the Cold War. Maxwell Taylor was supremely talented, but this biography elucidates the deep flaws in his thinking that contributed to American failures in Vietnam and other interventions. Taylor's experiences continue to influence current US debates about military power and foreign policy strategy. This is a book all contemporary military and policy observers should read."—Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office
"[An] engaging and well-paced biography of an American soldier-diplomat..."—Michigan War Studies Review
"This is a thoroughly source-based, well-argued and informative biography which is, at the same time, a good read as well. It makes a contribution to Cold War historiography and to the general debate about civilian and military aspects of strategy-making."—International Journal of Military History and Historiography
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Hardback | |
April 19, 2019 | |
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328 | |
20 b&w photos | |
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