The Origins of Flexible Response [electronic resource] : NATO's Debate over Strategy in the 1960s

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-10 The Historical Setting: NATO’s Nuclear Dependence....Pages 11-25 Kennedy’s Reappraisal of NATO Strategy....Pages 26-41 McNamara’s Efforts at Persuasion....Pages 42-68 Mixed Signals from the United States....Pages 69-95 A Different Vision: French Responses....Pages 96-120 A Delicate Balance: West German Responses....Pages 121-150 A Special Relationship: British Responses....Pages 151-174 The Outcome: The Compromise of Flexible Response....Pages 175-194 Flexible Response Reconsidered in the 1980s....Pages 195-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-274