Bücher von Marvin Kalb

Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea has become a global tinder box. Kalb argues that the post-cold war world today hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia, on the one side, and the United States and Europe, on the other, it will remain a danger zone with global consequences.

The United States had never lost a war - that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation. This title presents the history of presidential decision making on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war?