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Review Forum 1 on Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam and on The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC and Vietnam

February 9, 2011February 2, 2017 By Jessica M. Chapman, John Prados

Andrew Preston and Gordon Goldstein provide two very different looks at National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy’s role in the decision to escalate America’s war in Vietnam.  Preston hones in on Bundy’s Cold War worldview, inherited largely from his mentor Henry Stimson, and his efforts to concentrate power in the National Security Council, which put him…

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Article Review 6 on “No First Use: The Next Step for U.S. Nuclear Policy”

February 4, 2011August 31, 2016 By H-Diplo

Last April, the Obama administration announced that the “United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations.”  This declaration appeared to sharply constrain the conditions under which any U.S. leader would consider using…

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Roundtable 2-2 on Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security – from World War II to the War on Terror

January 14, 2011September 18, 2015 By H-Diplo

My copy of Julian Zelizer’s book Arsenal of Democracy arrived in the mail at about the same time late in 2009 that Barack Obama gave his address at West Point expanding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.  Obama had inherited the war, and his choices ranged from bad to worse.  But the one he selected, a…

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Roundtable 2-1 on Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement

January 7, 2011December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Justin Vaïsse has emerged in recent years as perhaps the most perceptive French analyst of current American politics and foreign policy. But he is a historian by training, and in writing his book on neoconservative movement, his primary goal was to understand the neoconservative movement as a historical phenomenon. The book is not a polemic or…

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Roundtable 1-6 on America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation

December 10, 2010September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

Norman Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa, have written a two volume narrative history of the Cold War. All four reviewers praise it as a lively and factually accurate account that, while breaking no new ground, would make an excellent text in an undergraduate course on the Cold War. Andrew Bacevich speaks for…

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Review Essay 4 on Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb

December 3, 2010February 2, 2017 By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

This is an excellent book that comprehensively treats in one volume a wide range of issues associated with nuclear weapons.  The topics Rotter examines include the history of nuclear physics; the relationship between the atomic bomb and two other antecedents (poisonous gas and strategic bombings); the Manhattan Project, Japanese and German nuclear projects during World…

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Roundtable 1-5 on RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era

December 1, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

All specialists on the Vietnam War are likely well aware of the involvement in the conflict played by the RAND Corporation, the California based think-tank closely tied to the defense and intelligence establishments in Washington, D.C.  Many, if not most, have also made use of some of RAND’s documents in their own research. Recently, however,…

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Essay 3- “French Foreign Policy in the July Crisis, 1914: A Review Article”

November 26, 2010February 2, 2017 By Marc Trachtenberg

When I was getting ready to take my Ph.D. exams forty years ago, I had a meeting with my advisor, Raymond Sontag. What, he wondered, should he examine me on? “Why don’t you ask me something about the origins of the First World War?” I said. “I think I understand that now.” His reply was…

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Roundtable 1-4 on Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War

November 22, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

Just over a decade ago, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the sudden revelation of new documents from the former communist countries, Cold War scholars were particularly keen to de-center their studies. By this, they meant internationalizing what they did, shifting the focus away from Washington, and not only exploring what went…

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Roundtable 1-3 on The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

November 15, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

Nicholas Thompson has taken an imaginative approach to the Cold War by presenting a comparative study of the public careers of Paul Nitze and George Kennan, two significant U.S. officials who participated in the Cold War from its post-WWII origins to its surprising conclusion.  With access to the records of his grandfather, Nitze, and the…

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