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(^352) Chapter Nine supported by superior air power, could do to disorganize and demor alize the rear of an army that did not w ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 353 But the Red Army, unexpectedly, survived the Nazi onslaught. Two days before the Japanes ...
(^354) Chapter Nine fell far behind what was needed to keep pace with improvements elsewhere.^84 The USSR was transnational in i ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 355 Great Britain. A plan for all-out mobilization of America’s resources achieved definitio ...
356 Chapter Nine affairs was thus achieved and sustained by the collaboration of British and American officials. The same princi ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 357 weapons design rivaled transnational organization in importance at the time; and since a ...
358 Chapter Nine Battlefield experience was fed back speedily to expert committees charged with correcting faults in existing ma ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 359 became well and truly industrialized as industry became no less well and truly militariz ...
360 Chapter Nine of history, the irrationality of scientific and managerial rationality applied to warfare was repeatedly demons ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century^361 immediate postwar months. But American hopes for really effective peace-keeping machiner ...
10 The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 When World War II ended in 1945, return to prewar conditions was not a viable ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 363 thanks to its unique adaptation of traditional forms of social solidarity to ...
364 Chapter Ten within British and American society in the postwar years. Con sequently Soviet reconstruction had to compete fr ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 365 not directly under their control. Insofar as their partners in such trans ac ...
366 Chapter Ten 1949, entrusted the task of marshaling west European defenses against the Red Army to an American commander in c ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 367 their first hydrogen bomb only nine months after the United States in Novembe ...
(^368) Chapter Ten proved unusually intense.^5 Not surprisingly, the so-called “missile gap” became a point of controversy in th ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 369 cultivated wherever it could be found, and if it were encouraged by the remov ...
370 Chapter Ten belated efforts to enter the technological space race, but only the USSR had the means and motivation to match t ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 371 after the missile race went into high gear, lasers and other “death rays” cap ...
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