The Public and National Security Policy

My aims are, first, to set in perspective the role of the public in the national security policy-making process; second, using available polling data, to summarize the substance of public attitudes toward major national security issues just prior to the Bush presidency; and finally, to draw together process and substance in the form of observations and unanswered questions as we view an uncertain future

Foreign Relations of the U.S.: Vietnam, January 1969–July 1970, vol. 6

This State Department volume, the first of five that will cover the end period of the Vietnam War, documents major foreign policy issues of the Nixon ad- ministration, with a focus on U.S. pol- icy toward Vietnam, Cambodia, and to a lesser extent Laos during the period of January 1969 to July 1970. What a time it was! In the 1968 presidential campaign, can- didate Richard M. Nixon stated that he had a plan to end the war in Vietnam. As it turned out, the “plan” was embry- onic. When he took office he moved slowly, convinced that how the United States ended the war would have an en- during impact on future American for- eign policy. Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s national security adviser, became the key figure in the effort to end the war, a program that became known as “Vietnamization.

James Schlesinger as Secretary of Defense

James R. Schlesinger was the youngest Secretary of Defense and the first to have no prior military experience but service fears that he shared other whiz kid attributes were erased (or at least balanced) by his articulation of coherent rationales for U.S. strategic and conventional forces

Eisenhower: From Abilene to the Elbe

Dwight D. Eisenhower, affectionately known as Ike, was in the center of major world events for two decades in the mid-twentieth century. As a soldier in World War II, he commanded the Allied armies that defeated the Axis powers in the Mediterranean and Europe, and in the following decade he served two terms as a very popular president. With this long and interesting volume that ends on VE Day, 8 May 1945, Carlo D’Este, a military historian, joins a distinguished list of Eisenhower biographers that includes Stephen Ambrose, Peter Lyon, grandson David Eisenhower, and, most recently, Geoffrey Perret

Norstad: Cold War NATO Supreme Commander—Airman, Strategist, Diplomat,

Lauris Norstad was a major Air Force leader during the defining years of the Cold War, and except for Dwight Eisen- hower, he was the most prominent of all the Supreme Allied Commanders Europe (SACEUR) since that position was estab- lished in early 1951. Surprisingly, up to now, nothing definitive had been written on his role as SACEUR. Robert Jordan, a professor at the University of New Or- leans and an authority on Nato, has filled that gap