In 1946, William Bullitt, the first U.S. Ambassador to the
Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to France at the outbreak of the
Second World War, and onetime close advisor to FDR, wrote the first
book-length, comprehensive analysis of the emerging Cold War
between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the war, as
the book's new introduction by Francis P. Sempa points out, Bullitt
had repeatedly urged President Roosevelt to wage war with a view
toward the postwar balance of power. Bullitt recounted in this
volume how the United States missed opportunities to block Soviet
geopolitical gains during the war due to a fundamental misreading
of the nature of the Soviet political system.
Bullitt wrote "The Great Globe Itself" from the perspective of a
key advisor to President Roosevelt who evolved into a strident
critic of the president's wartime diplomacy toward the Soviet
Union. When Soviet Russia became a wartime ally of the United
States, Bullitt understood that the alliance would last only until
the common enemy (Hitler's Germany) was defeated.
Bullitt's discussion and analysis of fundamental global
geopolitical realities and his prudent counsel to couple diplomacy
with force in international relations are as relevant today as when
he wrote the book, nearly sixty years ago.
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