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ch. 1.U.S. grand strategy. Reagan's strategic vision / Paul Lettow -- ch. 2. U.S. Armed Forces, 1975-1991. U.S. Air Force during the endgame of the Cold War / Benjamin S. Lambeth. U.S. Army from 1975-1991 : avoiding Vietnam and liberating Kuwait / Conrad C. Crane. From the trough to the crest : the U.S. Navy in the late Cold War / Edward J. Marolda -- ch. 3. U.S. intelligence, 1975-1991. Team B, the committee on the present danger, and the Soviet threat : perception and misperception in the era of détente / Christopher Preble. National intelligence estimates, 1976-1988 : successes and failures / John Prados. Accessing Soviet military secrets with open sources : illustrative Cold War techniques and enduring legacy / Graham Hall Turbiville, Jr. -- ch. 4. East Asian dimension, 1975-1991. Korea and the end of the Cold War / Allan R. Millett. China and the end of the global Cold War / Chen Jian and Li Xiaobing -- ch. 5. Fall of the Soviet empire. Collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War / John C. Reppert. Gorbachev, the Nationale Volksarmee, and the collapse of communism in East Germany / Dale R. Herspring -- ch. 6. Hard lessons, persistent questions : perspectives of a diplomatic correspondent. Cold War (1975-91) as a journalist saw it / Don Oberdorfer.