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Title: Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Peter Schweizer ISBN: 0-87113-633-3 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Right Leader for His Times
Comment: At times, it is easy to question the wisdom of the American electorate. Yet at truly critical junctures, the voting public has shown an uncanny knack for electing leaders who were ideally suited for the challenges of the times. Certainly, that was the case in 1932, with the election of FDR, and again in 1980, with the rise to prominence of Ronald Reagan.
The origin of the demise of the Iron Curtain -- and ultimate break-up of the Soviet Union -- can be traced to Reagan's arrival on the world geopolitical stage in the early 1980s. Author Peter Schweizer provides copious evidence for how the Reagan Administration's policies contributed to the collapse of the USSR. Some of these policies included: covert support for Afghan rebels and the Polish underground; the unprecedented military build-up and technology commitment (including SDI); the efforts to stem technology transfers and subsidized financial credits to Eastern Bloc nations, and significantly, to hobble the development of the Siberian natural gas pipeline; the "special relationship" forged with the Saudis, which ultimately led to the precipitous decline in oil prices (costing the USSR billions in lost hard currency).
Reagan's policy of active confrontation with the Soviet Union was a stark departure from bi-partisan orthodoxy, which had attempted to "accommodate," or, at best, "contain" Soviet expansion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why the Soviet Union Collapsed - What TV hasn't told you
Comment: VICTORY opens with a quote by former KGB general Oleg Kalugin: "American policy in the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union." VICTORY REVEALS HOW. This is living history from over twenty major players, with those interviewed listed at the end of each chapter. Several including Caspar Weinberger, John Poindexter, Bill Clark and Roger Robinson also reviewed the manuscript. The introduction lists seven key elements of the plan initiated by Reagan in early 1981. It points out that Reagan unlike some other Presidents did not view arms control agreements and treaties as the measure of his success. VICTORY is an account of the secret offensive including economic and psychological fronts designed to win the Cold War. Reagan used our strengths to take advantage of Soviet weaknesses. After success, the task is often seen as easy. The details in the book showed that winning the Cold War was made much harder by some Americans and many Western Europeans, some of whom now say it was inevitable You will see how critical, for instance, the AWACS aircraft were to the outcome.
Rating: 5
Summary: A worthy start...
Comment: Peter Schweizer's first contribution to the telling the untold stories of the efforts of the Reagan Administration is quite stunning - offering a uniques inside perspective to the operations and the planning of them that led to the memorable scenes of the Belrin Wall falling.
"Victory" is the story of what happened, and the planning that went on behind the scenes, orchestrated by then-DCI William Casey, who took lessons learned while fighting Adolf Hitler as part of the OSS in World War II, and applied them to fighting the Soviet Union.
Casey will probably go down in history as one of the America's great unsung heroes, joining men like Edwin T. Layton and Joe Rochefort. Schweizer's efforts have laid out this untold story, fought in the shadow world of espionage and covert operations in an engaging story.
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Title: Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer ISBN: 0385504713 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0195030974 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age by Keith B. Payne, Colin S. Gray ISBN: 0813108950 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction by Keith B. Payne ISBN: 0813190150 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century by Caspar W. Weinberger, Gretchen Roberts ISBN: 0895261669 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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