In this work, the compiler has brought together a highly selective listing of valuable works in the field of national security. Although the book begins with the first Eisenhower administration, the emphasis is clearly on the post-1960 era up through the Reagan years and in particular the years following American involvement in the wars of Indochina. With its focus on the executive branch, the bibliography provides an effective introduction to the processes for formulating strategies and military policies, and to a number of major defense and security issues. In order to identify the major policy declarations, strategy assessments, and reference works for each administration, Beede has divided the bibliography into chapters that cover presidential administrations. Each of these chapters begins with works concerning the decision makers and decision-making process of the administration, and follows with subject groupings on military and defense policies, particular types of strategies, and American alliances and responses to crises. Special chapters cover reference works, studies that address the entire time period, or that deal with several administrations, and analyses of the Vietnam conflict. The materials listed in the volume include a number of publications from the National Defense University.

Includes indexes.

Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Bibliographies and Other Reference Sources on Military and Strategic Policy -- Chapter 2: General and Comparative Studies of Military and Strategic Policy -- Chapter 3: Eisenhower and "The New Look" -- Chapter 4: Kennedy and Johnson: Balanced Forces, Flexible Response and Counterinsurgency -- Chapter 5: Vietnam and its Impact on National Security -- Chapter 6: Nixon and Ford: The Nixon Doctrine and Detente -- Chapter 7: Carter and National Security: Continued Detente, Human Rights, and Rearmament -- Chapter 8: Reagan: Reassertion and Rearmament -- Author Index -- Subject Index.