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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN:
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Good in Good jacket. x, [2], 416 pages. Footnotes. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling, is price clipped, and had been taped to the boards--some tape still on DJ. Robert Endicott Osgood (1921-1986) was an expert on foreign and military policy, and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for twenty five years, and also served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan during the latter's 1980 presidential campaign. Osgood attended Harvard University, where he attained his bachelor's degree as well as his doctorate. He also served in World War II. His teaching career began in 1956 when he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he became Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969, he took a leave to serve for a year as a staff aide on the U.S. National Security Council, headed by Henry A. Kissinger, in the Nixon Administration. Osgood directed the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the School of Advanced International Studies. He served as an advisor during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1983, Secretary of State George P. Shultz named him to the Policy Planning Council. The Osgood Center for International Relations is named for him. Never before, in times of peace, has a group of nations been so inextricably committed to a common interest as are the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For the United States, in particular, such deep entanglement with the affairs of other nations marks a revolution of foreign policy. Since its creation in 1949, NATO has been the outstanding political instrument of American security, but the extensive military and political collaboration it demands is a source of trouble as well as of strength. Robert Osgood, in this book, concerns himself primarily with the military-strategic sources of NATO's troubles. But military strategy has become, he holds, far more than "the science and art of fighting battles." With the present hesitation to resort to open warfare, the political and psychological consequence of the disposition of armed forces may be the primary function of military strategy. Such vexing problems as the stabilization of deterrence and the command and control of nuclear weapons are as much matters of high politics as of military logic. It is essential for NATO to adjust the terms of military collaboration to meet the growth of Soviet nuclear power, the tactics of 'peaceful coexistence, " the prospect of America's allies acquiring nuclear weapons, and the economic and political resurgence of Western Europe. To achieve this politically sensitive task, Dr. Osgood believe that a major strategic revision is necessary, that the United States must be the instigator, and that the Europeans must assume a larger responsibility in NATO's plans and decisions.
