Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Larson, Deborah Welch
These two otherwise dissimilar books are part of a growing literature exploring the role of "ideas" in shaping government policy. Santoro posits that national security and interdependence - the principles that guided and legitimized U.S. Cold War policy - were developed in 1940-41 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the United States was pursuing a policy of neutrality.
The purpose of his book is to trace the evolution of conceptual precursors through the Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR's) War and Peace Studies Project, which was begun in 1939 as a service ...
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