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Author Barlow, Jeffrey G., 1946-

Title From Hot War to Cold : the U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (1468 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 -- Wartime Organizational Changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS; COMMANDER IN CHIEF, UNITED STATES FLEET; COMINCH-DECEMBER 1941-MARCH 1942; THE COMBINING OF THE POSITIONS OF COMINCH AND CNO; POLITICAL INFIGHTING OVER DEPARTMENTAL REORGANIZATION-1943 -- 1944; ESTABLISHING THE POSTWAR POSITION OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS; THE SELECTION OF FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ AS CNO; CONCLUSION
Summary This volume provides an in-depth history of Navy high-level decision making during the challenging initial decade of the Cold War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-682) and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT United States. Navy fast
Subject National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces) -- United States -- History
Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
Interservice rivalry (Armed Forces)
Military policy -- Decision making
National security
Sea-power
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- Decision making
United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140347
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008022444
ISBN 9780804770965
0804770964