Soviet military policy since World War II and Nuclear strategy and national style

This chapter explains the difficulties caused for the Trotskyist movement and like-thinking Marxists by World War II, due to its combination of vexing features. Writings by James P. Cannon on “the proletarian military policy” and by Albert Goldman in the pages of the Militant newspaper are used to explain the strategy by which resistance to fascism was theorized. The alternative thinking of Dwight Macdonald and the perspectives of Meyer Schapiro and Edmund Wilson are also discussed, as well as new developments in literary criticism.

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Ethics, Technology, and Nuclear War, II : How do nuclear weapons affect our military policy?

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900006239 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 3-5

Author(s):

Joseph I. Coffey

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Soviet Union ◽

The United States ◽

Military Policy ◽

World War ◽

Nuclear War ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Conventional Weapons ◽

The U.S

Since the end of World War II, the United States has aimed at deterring aggression against this country or its allies by a judicious combination of longlange nuclear striking forces and other forces armed with both nuclear and conventional weapons. (The verb "to deter" is defined as "to inhibit" or, in a more absolute usage, as "to prevent." One of the ambiguities of the concept of deterrence is that no one, including ourselves, is clear as to which usage is meant, much less which may prevail.) Of late years, as the Soviet Union achieved and developed a nuclear capability, deterrence has increasingly rested on the ability of the United States to launch a devastating retaliatory blow against anyone attacking the U.S. or, by extension, our allies.

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Soviet Military Policy since World War II

Foreign Affairs ◽

10.2307/20042876 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 181

Author(s):

Andrew J. Pierre ◽

William T. Lee ◽

Richard F. Staar ◽

Tom Gervasi

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Military Policy ◽

World War

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Soviet Military Policy Since World War II.

Political Science Quarterly ◽

10.2307/2151503 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 102 (1) ◽

pp. 134

Author(s):

Raymond L. Garthoff ◽

William T. Lee ◽

Richard F. Staar

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Military Policy ◽

World War

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Separate Segregations

10.1093/oso/9780195342659.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 139-170

Author(s):

Thomas A. Guglielmo

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

World War Ii ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

Language Ability ◽

Japanese Americans ◽

Military Policy ◽

World War ◽

The World ◽

Over Time

Chapter 4 examines how the World War II–era military sometimes created descent-specific outfits other than “Negro” ones. At one time or another the army had a lengthy list of such units—made up of people of Austrian, Chinese, Filipino, Greek, Japanese, Mexican, Norwegian, Puerto Rican, and Native American ancestry. This nonblack troop segregation of sorts varied over time and according to numerous factors, including descent or “race,” location of induction, timing of induction, gender, and even foreign-language ability. How and which ancestries mattered most hinged on everything from the particulars of the war to long-standing military policy. Of all nonblacks, Japanese Americans faced the most extensive segregation during the war, but they fought it tenaciously, becoming increasingly integrated by war’s end.

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Extended Deterrence with Nuclear Weapons: How Necessary, How Acceptable?

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500015680 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 282-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Bruce Martin Russett

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Nuclear Weapons ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

World War ◽

Historical Evidence ◽

Alternative Strategies ◽

Nuclear Strategy ◽

Post World War Ii ◽

Extended Deterrence ◽

Catholic Bishops

Most policy and normative problems with nuclear weaponry arise in the context of extended deterrence; that is, deterrence of attacks on friends or allies of a nuclear power. This article reviews the history and contradictions of post-World War II Western extended deterrent strategy, considers the sources of differences and similarities in the perspectives of the American and West German Catholic bishops on these matters, presents a logical schema of types of deterrent situations, discusses some systematic historical evidence that suggests the utility of nuclear weapons for many of these situations is often exaggerated, and, after reviewing alternative strategies, suggests a role for a very limited “countercombatant” nuclear strategy.

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