LEADER 03897nam 22006374a 450 001 9910827118403321 005 20230320174411.0 010 $a0-8047-7096-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804770965 035 $a(CKB)2560000000051023 035 $a(EBL)908032 035 $a(OCoLC)793166798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484511 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299901 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484511 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594735 035 $a(PQKB)10342155 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908032 035 $a(DE-B1597)564582 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804770965 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908032 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10329907 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769898 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000051023 100 $a20080527d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom hot war to cold $ethe U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 /$fJeffrey G. Barlow 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (1468 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-5666-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [417]-682) and index. 327 $aWartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure. 330 $aThis book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the early postwar fighting in China between the Nationalists and the Communists, the formation of NATO, the outbreak of the Korean War, the decision of the Eisenhower Administration not to intervene in the Viet Minh troops' siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, and the initiation of the Eisenhower "New Look" defense policy. The author relies upon information obtained from a wide range of primary sources and personal interviews with important, senior Navy and Army officers. The result is a book that provides the reader with a new way of looking at these pivotal events. 606 $aNational security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInterservice rivalry (Armed Forces)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSea-power$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy$xDecision making 607 $aUnited States$xHistory, Naval$y20th century 615 0$aNational security$xHistory 615 0$aInterservice rivalry (Armed Forces)$xHistory. 615 0$aSea-power$xHistory 676 $a359/.03097309044 700 $aBarlow$b Jeffrey G.$f1946-$01597058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827118403321 996 $aFrom hot war to cold$93918676 997 $aUNINA