Deterring Armageddon a biography of NATO
The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together cou...
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Wildfire
2024
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part 1: The shock of Ukraine. 'A sense of threat and fear' (2022-2023)
- A very political alliance (2023)
- Part 2: Conception and birth. From the ruins of Dunkirk (1945-1948)
- Airlift and alliance (1948-1949)
- Part 3: The first Cold War. Putting the 'O' in NATO (1949-1951)
- The Eisenhower 'spiral of strength going upwards' (1951-1952)
- Massive retaliation, massive divisions (1952-1958)
- Sputnik, nukes and Charles de Gaulle (1957-1960)
- Testing Kennedy in Berlin (1961)
- Cuba (1962)
- Part 4: Détente, disagreements and the Reagan rollercoaster. The shadow of Vietnam (1963-1974)
- Back to the brink (1975-1980)
- The gloves come off (1981-1982)
- Dancing blindly on the edge (1983)
- Endgame (1984-89)
- Part 5: The era of intervention. Driving fast through fog (1990-1991)
- Into the Balkans (1992-1994)
- 'Where angels fear to tread' (1995-1998)
- Kosovo (1999)
- Into a new century (1999-2001)
- 9/11 and its aftermath (2001)
- The schisms of Iraq (2002-2005)
- Afghanistan: NATO's longest war (2006-2010)
- Part 6: Renewed confrontation. Putin, pirates, cyber attacks and Georgia (2007-2011)
- Unexpected revolutions (2011-2013)
- The return of war to Europe (2012-2015)
- Enter Donald Trump (2016-2019)
- The world crisis of the 2020s
- Part 7: The road to 2049. From Vilnius to Washington (2023-2024)
- Surviving the NATO century (2024-2049)
