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Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

by Lawrence Freedman. 528 pgs.

Contributors:

   Lawrence Freedman

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2000

Subjects:

Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963--Military Leadership, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, United States--Foreign Relations--1961-1963, United States--Military Policy, Cuba--History--Invasion, 1961

	Contents
	Preface: Kennedy's Wars	ix
	Dramatis Personae	xiii
	Introduction	3
I.	The Cold War and How to Fight It
1.	Liberal Anticommunism	13
2.	Beyond Massive Retaliation	18
3.	The Third World Alternative	27
4.	Policies and People	32
II.	Berlin and Nuclear Strategy
5.	The New Strategy	45
6.	To Vienna and Back	51
7.	The Berlin Anomaly	58
8.	A Contest of Resolve	66
9.	The Wall	72
10.	Tests and Tension	79
11.	Flexible Response	92
12.	Berlin to Cuba	112
III.	Cuba
13.	Removing Castro	123
14.	A Deniable Plan	129
15.	An Undeniable Fiasco	139
16.	Still Castro	147
17.	Mongoose	153
18.	Searching for Missiles	161
19.	The Options Debated	170
20.	Blockade	182
21.	Military Steps	193
22.	Political Steps	203
23.	The Denouement	208
24.	A Crisis Managed	218
25.	Aftermath	225
26.	Back to Square One	238
IV.	Afliances and D6tente
27.	The Sino-Soviet Split	249
28.	Toward a Test Ban	261
29.	The Test Ban Treaty	270
30.	Measured Response	276
V.	Vietnam
31.	Counterinsurgency	287
32.	Laos	293
33.	Commitment without Combat	305
34.	Deciding not to Decide	313
35.	The Taylor Report	322
36.	Decisions	330
37.	The Influence of Laos	340
38.	In the Dark	356
39.	Coercion and Clients	367
40.	Diem's Assassination	382
41.	Kennedy to Johnson	398
	Conclusion	415
	Acknowledgments	421
	Notes	423
	Bibliography	489
	Index	507

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