Description
In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of high international tension. The three essays were written before Professor Kissinger took leave from Harvard to serve as Assistant to President Nixon for National Secu
Table of Contents
Foreword -- Preface -- The Problems of Survival -- The Challenge of the Nuclear Age -- The Dilemma of American Security -- Technology and Strategy -- The Fires of Prometheus -- The Esoteric Strategy- Principles of All-Out War -- What Price Deterrence? The Problems of Limited War -- The Problems of Limited Nuclear War -- Diplomacy, Disarmament and the Limitation of War -- Strategy and Policy -- The Impact of Strategy on Allies and the Uncommitted -- American Strategy and NATO- A Test Case -- The Strategy of Ambiguity- Sino-Soviet Strategic Thought -- The Soviet Union and the Atom -- The Need for Doctrine
