Includes index.

Prewar and Wartime Planning -- FDR and U.S. Wartime Participation -- The Birth of Containment -- Emergence of the National Security Establishment -- Strategic Planning under Truman -- The Shifting Soviet Threat of the Fifties -- Military Planning under Eisenhower -- Arms Control, 1945-1960 -- Strategic Planning under Kennedy and Johnson -- Defense Planning and the Budget -- Arms Control in the Sixties -- America's Vietnam Policy -- Eastern Europe in the Sixties -- Strategic Planning under Nixon -- The Foundations of Soviet Foreign Policy -- The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks -- Detente to Disenchantment -- The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Doctrine -- The Soviet Threat of the Eighties -- Offensive and Defensive Planning under Reagan.