You Run the Show or the Show Runs You

J.D. Crouch; Patrick J. Garrity

doi:10.5771/9781442244740

Summary

For over forty years professor Harold W. Rood developed provocative theories in strategy, international relations, diplomacy and military power, and American foreign policy. Rood’s teaching and corpus of original writing greatly influenced generations of students who would go on to play key leadership roles in government and the public policy community. This book synthesizes Rood’s core teachings to preserve them for future generations and to stimulate new thinking in his intellectual legacy.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-4473-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-4474-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 257
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Organization and Summary of the Argument No access
2. Notes No access
1. Peace, Justice, Defense No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Patterns of International Politics No access
2. The German Problem No access
3. The Problems of Asia No access
4. The Middle Eastern Question No access
5. The Caribbean-Cuban Salient No access
6. “Objective Conditions” No access
7. Notes No access
1. Achieving Strategic Superiority through War No access
2. Surprise and the Failure of Early Warning No access
3. Deception, Disinformation, and Subversive Influence No access
4. Manipulating Enemies No access
5. Deterrence, Rightly Understood No access
6. Notes No access
1. Democratic “Realism”: Facing the Music No access
2. Democratic Idealism: The Lessons of History No access
3. The Constitutional Obligation of Defense: The Role of the Executive No access
4. Military Policy, Doctrine, and Planning in a Democracy No access
5. Notes No access
1. Political-Strategic Indicators of War No access
2. Early Warning: Tracking Soviet Anomalies No access
3. An Advanced Soviet Base in Cuba No access
4. Bolstering the Central Front in Europe No access
5. Turning NATO’s Southern Flank No access
6. Vietnam and the Asia-Pacific Region No access
7. Nuclear Superiority and Arms Control No access
8. Did the Soviets Want War or the Fruits of War? No access
9. The End of the Soviet Union and the Continuity of the Russian Problem No access
10. Notes No access
1. The American Strategic Experience No access
2. Defending the Rimland No access
3. Why Fight in Vietnam No access
4. Did Defeat in Vietnam Matter? No access
5. What was to be Done? No access
6. Notes No access
1. Why Fight in Iraq No access
2. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Appendix A No access Pages 227 - 228
Appendix B No access Pages 229 - 234
Appendix C No access Pages 235 - 242
Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 244
Index No access Pages 245 - 256
About the Authors No access Pages 257 - 257