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National Security Strategy

Index of Documents

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Primary Sources
• Casablanca Conference, February 12, 1943.
• Cairo Declaration, November (released December 1), 1943.
• Tehran Conference, November 28-December 1, 1943.
• Yalta Conference, February, 1945.
• Potsdam Conference, Protocol of the Proceedings, August 1, 1945.
• Churchill, Winston S. "A Shadow Has Fallen on Europe and Asia." (Iron Curtain Speech)
  Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946.
• Stalin, Joseph V. "Stalin's Reply to Churchill."
  The New York Times, March 14, 1946 (interview with Pravda), p. 4.
• Kennan, George. "Telegraphic Message from Moscow." (The Long Telegram)
  02/22/46. Reprinted from Memoirs, 1925-1950. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967), pp. 547-559.
• Mr. X (George Kennan). "The Sources of Soviet Conduct."
  Foreign Affairs, July, 1947.
• Novikov, Nikolai. "The Novikov Telegram."
  09/27/46. Reprinted from Origins of the Cold War. (Washington, DC: USIP, 2001)
• Zhdanov, Andrei. "Report on the International Situation." (Response to X)
  Speech to Cominform, September 22, 1947.
• Acheson, Dean. "The Requirements of Reconstruction."
  Undersecretary of State Acheson on the European recovery plan, May 8, 1947.
• Marshall, George C. "European Initiative Essential to Economic Recovery."
  Secretary of State Marshall on the European recovery plan, June 5, 1947.
• Truman, Harry S. "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey." (The Truman Doctrine)
  Speech before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947.
• Vyshinsky, Andrei. "A Soviet Criticism of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan."
  September 18, 1947
• NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security.
  Naval War College Review, Vol. 27 (May-June, 1975), pp. 51-108.
• Wohlstetter, Albert. "The Delicate Balance of Terror."
  RAND, P-1472, November 6, 1958. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 37. (1959), pp. 211-234.
• Chinese Foreign Ministry. Why China Intervened in Korea?
  United Nations Document S/ 1902, November 15, 1950, pp. 2-4.
• President Eisenhower & Advisers. U.S. Options During the Suez and Hungarian Crises
  Memorandum of Discussion at the 303rd Meeting of the NSC, Washington, November 8, 1956.
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. "On Peaceful Coexistence."
  Foreign Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-18.
• McNamara, Robert. "The No-Cities Doctrine."
  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, June 1962.
• Morgenthau, Hans J. "To Intervene or Not to Intervene."
  Foreign Affairs, (April 1967), pp. 424-436.
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 10, 1964.
• War Powers Resolution, November 7, 1973.
• United States Security Strategy, 2002.
• United States Security Strategy, 2006.


Secondary Sources
• Brodie, Bernard. "Strategic Bombing in World War II."
  From Strategy in the Missile Age. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965), pp. 107-144.
• Botting, Douglas. "The Berlin Airlift of 1948."
  From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949, (New York: New American Library, 1985).
• Weathersby, Kathryn. "Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-1950."
  Cold War International History Project, Working Paper No.8.
  
  Analytical Works
• Moran, Daniel. "Strategic Theory and the History of War."
  From Strategy in the Contemporary World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 17-44.
• Gray, Colin S. "Strategy, Politics, Ethics."
  From Modern Strategy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 48-74.
• Mueller, John. "Expanding Deterrence."
  From Quiet Cataclysm. (New York: HaperCollins, 1995), pp. 47-60.
• Treverton, Gregory F. "Framing Compellent Strategies."
  RAND Publication MR-1240-OSD, 2000.
• Fearon, James. "Rationalist Explanations for War."
  International Organization, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Summer, 1995), pp. 379-414.
• Powell, Robert. "Some Introductory Notes on Game Theory."
  From Nuclear Deterrence Theory. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• Powell, Robert. "The Nuclear Revolution and the Problem of Credibility."
  From Nuclear Deterrence Theory. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 6-32.
• Powell, Robert. "Nuclear Deterrence Theory, Nuclear Proliferation, and National Missile Defense."
  International Security, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Spring, 2003), pp. 86-118.