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The Reagan Revolution, v. III - Defeating the Soviet Challenge (Paperback)
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The Reagan Revolution, v. III - Defeating the Soviet Challenge (Paperback)
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Volume III of the Reagan Revolution series recounts the president's
successful defeat of the Soviet drive for global hegemony--for
strategic weaons superiority, political domination of the Eurasian
landmass, and decisive leverage over world oil. In volumes I and II
of this study I analyzed the president's decisions to jettison the
failed strategy of detente and seek victory in the Cold War. In
broadening the nation's economic base to sustain a more powerful
military capability, he confronted the Soviet military challenge.
Simultaneously, he worked to rebuild the Western Alliance, which
had disintegrated during the detente years.
In this volume I show how Reagan foiled the Soviet drive for
strategic weapons superiority with a complex, high technology
weapons buildup and a surprise shift to strategic defense,
inaugurating a fundmental change in the national security equation.
He neutralized the Soviet attempt to dominate the Eurasian landmass
with the SS-20 missile by deploying the Pershing II/cruise missile
package to Western Europe. And he blocked the Soviet drive to shift
Iran into its orbit thereby preserving the secure flow of oil to
the west and opening the door to an improvement of reltions with
Iran.
Recognizing that the Soviet Union was overextended, fueling
revolutionary movements on four continents and deeply mired in
Afghanistan, the president raised the costs of competition for the
Soviet economy already laboring under the heavy burden large-scale
military expenditures. He worked for reduced energy prices,
reducing Soviet hard-currency earnings, while at the same time
blocking the transfer of high technology upon which the Soviet
Union depended to remain competitive with the United States. By the
middle of 1984 the Soviet leadership concluded that its strategy
had failed and would have to be changed.
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