Osgood, Robert E.

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Naval War College ReviewVolume 15Number 7 October Article 51962NATO, the Entangling AllianceRobert E. OsgoodFollow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-reviewThis Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Naval War College Review by an authorized editor of U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. For more information, please contactrepository.inquiries@usnwc.edu.Recommended CitationOsgood, Robert E. (1962) "NATO, the Entangling Alliance," Naval War College Review: Vol. 15 : No. 7 , Article 5.Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol15/iss7/5BOOKS Stoessinger, John G. The Might of Nations. New York: Random House, 1961. 475 p. Dr. Stoessinger has brought s cholarship, writing talent, and originality to bear on this interdisciplinary study of this generation's world power struggle. For inspiration at the start of each chapter, he ranges from Camus to Plato. Himself a literary stylist, he still quotes profusely from Mo rgenthau, Kissinger, and many other contemporaries. This book deserves careful reading and is more enjoyable than most. Dr. Stoessinger employs two key concepts in his book. First, he discusses world politics in rerms of the ever-present rension between the struggle for power and the struggle for order among nations. Second, and included within the above broad and general conceptual framework, he inttaduces a specific substaative theme: the linkage between the East-West struggle and the s truggle between nationalism and colonialism. 1'hen he adds nn important new dimension to international relations: the frequent and highly signifi­cant differences between the way nations perceive one another and the way they really are. Osgood, Robert E. NATO, the Entangling Alliance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. 416 p. This book is a comprehensive and thoroughly documented analysis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. '!'he author describes in appro­priate detail the evolution of the alliance and traces very effectively its development to the present. As a consequence, the book is most timely. The student of military affairs will find a great deal of interesting mare­rial in this book, particularly with regard to the author's discussion of the effects of the impending diffusion of nuclear capability among the nations of the alliance, the problems of control of nuclear weapons within the alliance, and past and future concepts of disengagement. Payne, Pier re S. R. Portrait of a Revolutionary; Mao Tse-tung. rev. ed. New York: Abelard�9chuman, 1961. 311 p. Mr. Payne is a gifted aut hor-poet with an extensive experience in Chinn. He is a non-Communist who has made a considerable study, and appears to have a good understanding of the appeal of communism to Asiatics. About 12 years ago Mr. Payne wrote a book en titled Mao Tse­tung, Ruler of Red China. Hi s new book, complete with a new title, according to the author, fills in many of the gaps that existed in the previous work, carefully revises much of the previous material in light .58 1Osgood: NATO, the Entangling AlliancePublished by U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons, 1962

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