Lecture Outlines

Shotgun Marriage

A. Change over Time
       1. Day of Infamy as a watershed
            2. Age of Vulnerability
            3. Rendezvous with Destiny

B. Conflicting Objectives

C. Personal Diplomacy

        1. Supreme Self-Confidence
           2. Wartime Conferences

D. Incrementalism

E. Stalin's Demands

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Words and Deeds

A. Roosevelt's Dance
        1. Brest-Litovsk
             2. Rapollo

B. Promises, Promises
        1. Personal Diplomacy
             2. Four Policemen

C. 'Special Relationship' with Britain

D. Damage Control

E. Friends at Last?

F. Overlord

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Dawn of a New Day

A. The Architecture

            1.  Teheran  (Cairo)       
                 2.  IBRD/World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
                 3.  IMF (International Monetary Fund)
                 4.  UN (United Nations)

B. Yalta

                    1. FDR's health
                2. Alger Hiss
                3. Secret Protocols

C. A Bridge Too Far

D. Poland

                1. Lublin/London governments
                2. Warsaw Uprising

E. Germany

F. Roosevelt's Death

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Triumph and Tragedy

A. Give'm Hell Harry

B. Potsdam

C. Politics of Postponement

D. Manhattan Project

E. Atomic Diplomacy

        1. Compellence
           2. Deterrence

F. Potsdam Declaration

G. Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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The Iceman Cometh

A. The American Century?

B. Bipolarity

        1. Geopolitics
           2. Political Economy

C. Long Peace Conference

            1. London      (Sept. 1945)
            2. Moscow    (Dec. 1945)
            3. Paris          (April-Oct. 1946)

D. Carrots and Sticks

E. "Long Telegram"

F. "Iron Curtain"

G. Crisis in Iran

        1. Shah Reza Pahlavi
         2. Azerbaijan

H. Security Dilemma

I. The Winning Weapon

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Strategic Monstrosity

A. Beware of Greeks

B. Churchill-Stalin "Percentage Agreement"

C. Rotten Apples

D. Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean

E. Truman Doctrine

F. "A Policy of Firm Containment"

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Preponderance of Power

A. The World According to Dean Acheson

B. Marshall Plan

C. Czech Coup

        1. Jan Masaryk
           2. Lucius Clay

D. Division of Germany

        1. Currency Reform
           2. Berlin Blockade (June 1948)
           3. Strategic Air Command

E. National Security Act (July 1947)

        1. Department of Defense (DoD)
           2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA}
           3. National Security Council (NSC)

F. North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] (July 1949)

G. The Great Fear

        1. Soviet Atomic Bomb (September 1949)
           3. Superbomb (B-52 bomber)
           2. Joseph McCarthy

H. NSC-68

        1. Paul Nitze
           2. Containment or Rollback

I. Korean War

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Asian Perimeter(s)

A. Vinegar and Peanuts Do Not Mix

        1. Chiang Kai-shek  (Jiang Jieshi)

        2. General Joseph Stilwell

        3. Madame Chiang

B. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)

C. Patrick Hurley and the China Hands

D. Missions Impossible

         1. Marshall
            2. (Albert Wedemeyer)

E. Who Lost China?

         1. China White Paper
            2. Henry Luce
            3. China Lobby

F. The Wrong War?

         1. Limited War
            2. "Unleashing" Chiang
            3. Atomic Threat

G. Substitute for Victory

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Waging Peace

A. Death of Stalin (March 5, 1953)

B. The Last American Hero

C. More Bang for the Buck
        1. Fiscal Conservatism
        2. Keynesian
        3. Massive Retaliation

D. Liberation/Roll Back

E. The Political Divide
        1. Internationalists
        2. Unilateralists
        3. Isolationists

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Between War and Peace

A. Dull, Duller, Dulles

B. The New Look

        1. Threat Assessment

           2. The Oxymoronism of Deterrence

           3. Collective Security

           4. Trade and Aid

           5. Negotiations

C. Coherence

D. NSC 162/2

E. Containment Redux

F. Shadow Warfare

G. McCarthyism

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To Move a Nation

A. The Perfect Failure

B. "How Could I Be So Stupid?"

        1. The Torch is Passed
       2. The Best and the Brightest

                a. Dean Rusk
               b. McGeorge Bundy
               c. Robert McNamara
               d. Maxwell Taylor

C. Misperception

D. The Politics (and Strategy) of Personality

        1. The Kennedy Imprisonment
       2. Psychology of a Nation

E. Berlin Wall

        1. 1958 Crisis
       2. Vienna Conference
       3. Checkpoint Charlie Checkmate

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Profile in Courage

A. Blinkmanship

B. Essence of Decision

        1. Groupthink
           2. Multiple Advocacy
       2. Executive Committee (Excom)

C. Options

        1. Hawks
       2. Doves
       3. Owls

D. Quarantine

E. Trollope Ploy

F. Finest Hour

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No Exit

A. The Making of a Quagmire

            1. World War II Shenanigans

                        a. Ho, Giap, and the OSS
                        b. FDR's Trusteeship Proposal

                   2. French Reconquest and the Truman Doctrine

B. First Indochina War

C. Fear of Falling Dominoes

            1. Navarre Plan

                2. Dienbienphu

                3. United Action

                4. Congressional Complicity

D. Geneva Conference

E. Sink or Swim with Ngo Dinh Diem

F. Bear Any Burden?

            1. Limited Partnership

                2. Mutual Distrust

                3. Buddhist Crisis

                4. Assassination and Coup

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Triple-Canopied Tragedy

A. The Johnson Irony

B. Missed Opportunity?

C. McNamara's War

        1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
       2. Rolling Thunder

D. Battle of Memoranda

E. The Stalemate Machine

F. Clifford and the Wise Men

        1. Tet
       2. Bombing Pause

G. Round Tables and Square Pegs

        1. Nguyen Cao Ky
       2. Nguyen Van Thieu

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Indecent Interval

A. New Hampshire, Chicago, and Miami

            1. Nixinger

            2. From Consensus to Polarization

            3. Secret Plan

B. Vietnamization

C. Force and Diplomacy

            1. Kissinger

            2. Madman in the White House

            3. Cambodia

            4. Linebacker

E. Let's Make a Deal

            1. Preliminary Accord

            2. The Tail Wags the Dog

            3. Christmas Bombings

F. Peace with Honor?

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Back to the Future

A. Different Vision

        1. Realism

        2. "Long Peace"

B. End of the American Century

C. Superstructure of Peace

        1. Equilibrium

        2. Legitimacy

        3. Linkage

        4. Credibility

D. Detente

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A Fallen Star

A. 'The Greatest Person in the World"

B. Yom Kippur War

            1. Anwar Sadat

            2. Golda Meier

            3. UN Resolution 242

C. Chilly Chile

D. War Powers Act

E. Watergate

F. Cyprus

        A. Greece

        B. Turkey

G. Jackson-Vanik Amendment (1974)

H. Kissinger Unplugged

        A. Vietnam

        B. Angola

        C. Mayaguez

        D. Lebanon/Palestinians/Syria

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Born Again Wilsonianism

A. Peace of Precious Values

B. Naivete and Ineptness

C. Accomplishments

        1. Human Rights

        2. Camp David Accords

        3. Panama Canal Treaties

        4. A World of Complexity

D. Eraticism

        1. Afganistan

        2. Iran Rescue Mission

E. Vance v. Brzezinski

D. Micromanagement

E. Strategic Incoherence

        1. De-Linkage

        2. Evil or Benign

        3. SALT II

F. Georgia v. Washington

G. The Not-So-Great Communicator

H. Hostage to Hostages

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Morning in America

A. Noble Cause

B. Kissinger, No; Kennedy, Yes 

C. Pipelines, No; Missiles, Yes

D. Return of the CIA

E. Setback in Poland

        1. Solidarity/Lech Walesa

        2. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski

F. The Schultz Era

F. Starting START

H. Star Wars

I. De-Linkage

J. Gorby-Mania

        A. Perestroika

        B. Glasnost

H. Summitry

        A. Reykjavik

        B. INF Treaty

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Dictatorships and Double Standards

A. From Backyard to Front Burner

        1. El Salvador

        2. Nicaragua

B. The Logic of Jeane Kirkpatrick

C. The Logic of Granada

D. Fighting Communism and Congressmen

E. Reagan Doctrine

F. Mess in the Middle East

        1. Israel on the Defensive

        2. Israel on the Offensive

        3. Lebanon

        4. Iraq-Iran War

G. Iran Contra

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Surprises and the Surprised

    1. "Don't Do Something; Stand There"

    2. "Status Quo Plus"

B. Gorbachev’s “New Thinking”

        1. The Nationalities Question

        2. Poland

        3. Repudiation of Brezhnev Doctrine

        4. Velvet Revolution

        5. Berlin Wall

  C. Bush’s Old Thinking

                1. Malta Summit

                2. German Reunification

D. Collapse of the Soviet Union

        1. Boris Yeltsin

        2. Russian Federation

        3. Commonwealth of Independent States

E. Days of Glory

     1. Nicaragua

        2. El Salvador

    4. Gulf War

  F. Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

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