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Cold War and Korea

Cold War and Korea. Atomic Bomb and National Security War Plans, weapons, delivery systems National Security Act, 1947 Independent Air Force Towards a National Security Policy NSC-68 (1950) Korean War, 1950-53 Retreat back to Pusan Perimeter Inchon Landing and Chinese Intervention

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Cold War and Korea

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  1. Cold War and Korea • Atomic Bomb and National Security • War Plans, weapons, delivery systems • National Security Act, 1947 • Independent Air Force • Towards a National Security Policy • NSC-68 (1950) • Korean War, 1950-53 • Retreat back to Pusan Perimeter • Inchon Landing and Chinese Intervention • Limited War vs No Substitute for Victory

  2. Nuclear Strategy • Dwight D. Eisenhower and New Look • Strategic Priorities • Massive Retaliation • Implementing the Vision: Nuclear Arsenal • Critics of the New Look • US Navy • Missions and Weaponry • US Army • Limited atomic warfare, weapons

  3. John F. Kennedy and Vietnam • Maxwell D. Taylor and Flexible Response • Robert McNamara and Defense Reform • Whiz Kids and systems analysis • Strategic Triad and Mutually Assured Destruction • Build up of conventional forces • Counterinsurgency (COIN) and 3rd Challenge • JFK and American COIN Theory • US Army Special Forces • US commitment to South Vietnam • Background • Decision to commit US ground forces • William C. Westmoreland and the US Ground War

  4. Vietnam • Problems with Search and Destroy • Tet, 1968 • Buildup to the Offensive • Revolutionary Situation and Success Offensive • Impact of Tet and My Lai • Richard Nixon and Vietnamization • ARVN Buildup and CORDS • Air War • Rolling Thunder and frustration • Legacy of Vietnam

  5. Military Renaissance, 1975-90 • Reagan Military Buildup • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars) • US Navy and Maritime Strategy • Budget and procurement issues • Beirut and the challenge to civilian control Iran-Contra (1986) • Military Reform Movement • US Air Force: John Boyd and John Warden • Maneuver Warfare • Gulf War, 1990-91 • Planning and operations

  6. Path to Iraq • The American Way of War Debate • Approaches to understanding the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts • Background • The Lessons of Vietnam and their impact on the US Army • William DePuy and FM 100-5: Operations • Implementing the Vision • Vindication in the Gulf War? • The post-Cold War Army and its vision of warfare • Gulf War Drawdown • The Army Transformation initiative, 1999-2002 • The invasion of Iraq and the illusion of victory • The outbreak of the insurgency/civil war

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