Part II -- THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN U.S. COLD WAR STRATEGY AN OVERVIEW

Chapter 8 – Setting the New Cold War Strategy: The First Term - Statements and Decisions

Chapter 8 – Setting the New Cold War Strategy: The First Term - Statements and Decisions

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Topics

  1. Reagan Sets His New Strategy
     
  2. Reagan’s Inauguration—Reagan’s Political and Strategic Vision
     
  3. The Consistency in Reagan’s Classified and Public Strategy Documents
     
  4. The National Security Council (NSC) Process
     
  5. NSC Organization: Reagan’s Early Directives—1981 to 1982
     
  6. A Note on Intelligence Documents
     
  7. Reagan’s Emerging Grand Strategy and Early NSC Strategy Documents—1981 to 1982
     
  8. NSDD 75: Reagan Confirms the New U.S. Cold War Strategy—January 1983
     
  9. A Note on Reagan’s Private Correspondence with Soviet Leaders before Gorbachev (Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko)
     
  10. A Short Summary of Reagan’s Economic Warfare Strategy against the Soviet Union
     
  11. A Short Summary of Reagan’s Cold War Strategy and the People’s Republic of China (PRC)

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