National Security Strategy

Index of Documents

Primary Sources

Casablanca Conference, February 12, 1943.
Cairo Declaration, November (released December 1), 1943.
Tehran Conference, November 28-December 1, 1943.
Yalta Conference, February, 1945.
Potsdam Conference, Protocol of the Proceedings, August 1, 1945.
Churchill, Winston S. "A Shadow Has Fallen on Europe and Asia." (Iron Curtain Speech)
Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946.
Stalin, Joseph V. "Stalin's Reply to Churchill."
The New York Times, March 14, 1946 (interview with Pravda), p. 4.
Kennan, George. "Telegraphic Message from Moscow." (The Long Telegram)
02/22/46. Reprinted from Memoirs, 1925-1950. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967), pp. 547-559.
Mr. X (George Kennan). "The Sources of Soviet Conduct."
Foreign Affairs, July, 1947.
Novikov, Nikolai. "The Novikov Telegram."
09/27/46. Reprinted from Origins of the Cold War. (Washington, DC: USIP, 2001)
Zhdanov, Andrei. "Report on the International Situation." (Response to X)
Speech to Cominform, September 22, 1947.
Acheson, Dean. "The Requirements of Reconstruction."
Undersecretary of State Acheson on the European recovery plan, May 8, 1947.
Marshall, George C. "European Initiative Essential to Economic Recovery."
Secretary of State Marshall on the European recovery plan, June 5, 1947.
Truman, Harry S. "Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey." (The Truman Doctrine)
Speech before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947.
Vyshinsky, Andrei. "A Soviet Criticism of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan."
September 18, 1947
NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security.
Naval War College Review, Vol. 27 (May-June, 1975), pp. 51-108.
Wohlstetter, Albert. "The Delicate Balance of Terror."
RAND, P-1472, November 6, 1958. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 37. (1959), pp. 211-234.
Chinese Foreign Ministry. Why China Intervened in Korea?
United Nations Document S/ 1902, November 15, 1950, pp. 2-4.
President Eisenhower & Advisers. U.S. Options During the Suez and Hungarian Crises
Memorandum of Discussion at the 303rd Meeting of the NSC, Washington, November 8, 1956.
Khrushchev, Nikita S. "On Peaceful Coexistence."
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-18.
McNamara, Robert. "The No-Cities Doctrine."
University of Michigan Commencement Speech, June 1962.
Morgenthau, Hans J. "To Intervene or Not to Intervene."
Foreign Affairs, (April 1967), pp. 424-436.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 10, 1964.
War Powers Resolution, November 7, 1973.
United States Security Strategy, 2002.
United States Security Strategy, 2006.

Secondary Sources

Brodie, Bernard. "Strategic Bombing in World War II."
From Strategy in the Missile Age. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965), pp. 107-144.
Botting, Douglas. "The Berlin Airlift of 1948."
From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949, (New York: New American Library, 1985).
Weathersby, Kathryn. "Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-1950."
Cold War International History Project, Working Paper No.8.

Analytical Works
Moran, Daniel. "Strategic Theory and the History of War."
From Strategy in the Contemporary World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 17-44.
Gray, Colin S. "Strategy, Politics, Ethics."
From Modern Strategy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 48-74.
Mueller, John. "Expanding Deterrence."
From Quiet Cataclysm. (New York: HaperCollins, 1995), pp. 47-60.
Treverton, Gregory F. "Framing Compellent Strategies."
RAND Publication MR-1240-OSD, 2000.
Fearon, James. "Rationalist Explanations for War."
International Organization, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Summer, 1995), pp. 379-414.
Powell, Robert. "Some Introductory Notes on Game Theory."
From Nuclear Deterrence Theory. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Powell, Robert. "The Nuclear Revolution and the Problem of Credibility."
From Nuclear Deterrence Theory. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 6-32.
Powell, Robert. "Nuclear Deterrence Theory, Nuclear Proliferation, and National Missile Defense."
International Security, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Spring, 2003), pp. 86-118.