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Cold War (1945–91) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...America's hostile view of the Soviet Union. An even harsher indictment of U.S. foreign policy appealed in Joyce and Gabriel Kolko 's The Limits of Power: The World and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945–1954 ( 1972 ), in which the United States's Cold War policy was seen as both reflexively anti‐Communist and counterrevolutionary. Any form of challenge to the American form of politics or economics was controlled by either covert or military means. Not surprisingly, each new historical interpretation of the Cold War begat another—one that built on the earlier...
Vietnam War (1960–1975) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
... ( 1995 ), also falls within this interpretive school. The other major interpretive approach offers a far more radical critique of American intentions and behavior. It depicts the United States as a global hegemony, concerned primarily with its own economic expansion, and reflexively opposed to communism, indigenous revolution, or any other challenge to its authority. Authors writing from this perspective typically characterize American intervention in Indochina as the necessary and logical consequence of a rapacious superpower's drive for world dominance....
Disciplinary Views of War Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...of Vietnamese resistance; the diplomatic historians must make such social and cultural roots central elements of a new, more inclusive, and presumably more enlightening diplomatic history. The earliest reexamination involved the origins of the Cold War. Historians being the reflexive regressionists they are, this in turn provoked a fresh look at previous wars. Radical revisionists like Gabriel Kolko saw the Cold War as the inevitable outgrowth of decisions made during World War II; John Lewis Gaddis and other moderate “post revisionists” interpreted the...
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