The Point of the Spear
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The Point of the Spear

The Cold War Years

  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 11 Feb |Learn more

The Point of the Spear

The Cold War Years

About this book

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies lasted from the late 1940s through the late 1980s. But the armed forces of the two superpowers met only through proxies. The primary front-line soldiers in the Cold War were diplomats, political leaders, and intelligence officers. David M. Bush was a career military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency during the last decade and a half of the Cold War. This is a first-person narrative of his experiences providing intelligence support to US Government decision-makers for several crises involving the USSR and its Caribbean Basin allies Cuba, Grenada, and Nicaragua.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information ©
  5. Acknowledgment
  6. Author’s Foreword
  7. Chapter 1 CIA Culture
  8. Chapter 2 Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces
  9. Chapter 3 Space Defense and Wartime Commands
  10. Chapter 4 Air Defense Aviation
  11. Chapter 5 Civil Defense
  12. Chapter 6 National Intelligence Estimates
  13. Chapter 7 Afghanistan and Iran
  14. Chapter 8 Poland
  15. Chapter 9 Cuba
  16. Chapter 10 The Falklands War
  17. Chapter 11 Grenada
  18. Chapter 12 Central America
  19. Chapter 13 Nicaragua