Nuclear Strategy: The Jim King Manuscripts

Lawrence Freedman wrote in his acclaimed book "The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy", 'James King permitted me to read a copy of his own masterly unpublished study entitled The New Strategy', (London. Macmillan in association with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. 1981) p.xii. There were in fact nine drafts of the manuscript written by James E. King Jr (Jim) from 1948 to 1988. Correspondence indicates that Lawrence Freedman probably read a copy in 1976 of a version given by Jim King to Ken Booth in 1973. Eight of these drafts are provided in their original unaltered form on a CD to accompany this volume. The ninth draft is not enclosed as it remains classified as 'Top Secret'. A declassified paper entitled 'The Intellectuals and the Bombs presented in 1982' provides insight for a likely reasoning of such a classification despite a publication contract with The Free Press. The nine drafts detailed provide various insider/outsider perspectives on nuclear strategy. In addition the CD provides commentaries on the drafts and correspondence with luminaries that include: Edward Luttwak, Henry Kissinger Bernard Brodie, Robert Jarvis, Tom Schelling, Ken Booth, Colin Gray, Gordon Craig, Charles Nixon, Arthur Schlesinger, Grove Haines, James Nathan, Roger Dingman, David Edwards, Barry Steiner, Alistair Buchan, Basil Liddell-Hart, Peter Paret, Roman Kolkowicz, William Potter, Derek Leebaert, Steven Miller, and Robert Osgood. This printed volume only provides limited extracts and annotations that are permitted due to Copyright restrictions. All the content on the CD is provided with strict copyright that all material quoted from the drafts must be attributed to James E. King Jr as being the author, with full referencing to the CD as the source. Prior permission must be obtained for any material quoted from the correspondence.

Table of Contents:
BERLIN CRISIS: THEN AND NOW; DETERRENCE AND DETERRENTS BERLIN AND THE DEFENSE DEBATE; STRATEGIC FORCES AND AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS IN COLD WAR AND DETENTE; 1945 1970; The RMA; FORCE AND VIOLENCE; THE IMPLICATIONS OF LIMITED WAR; THE MILITARY BASIS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY; A CONCEPT OF NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY; INTERNATIONALISM VERSUS THE NEW NATIONALISM IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1945-1965; BACK TO COLLECTIVE SECURITY; POWER POLITICS AGAIN; ACADEMIC ORIGINS OF THE NEW NATIONALISM; POLITICAL STRATEGISTS: I. ABSOLUTE WEAPON; THE NEW STRATEGY AND THE NEW NATIONALISM: COMMON ELEMENTS; "BALANCE" VS "NORMS" IN THE NEW STRATEGY; WHAT KIND OF BALANCE; THE CONTAINMENT DOCTRINES 1945-1952; THE KOREAN WAR TRANSFORMATION, 1950-1952; THE DISARMAMENT ALTERNATIVE, 1945-1952; THE DISARMAMENT ALTERNATIVE, 1945-1952; THE THREAT: SOVIET STRATEGY UNDER STALIN, 1945-1952; SURPRISE ATTACK, "SUFFICIENCY," AND THE MISSILE GAP, 1956-1960; DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL, 1953-1960; EISENHOWER AND STALIN'S SUCCESSORS; THE THREAT OF SURPRISE ATTACK: FACT AND FICTION, 1947-1957; THE KENNEDY ARMS PROGRAM AND THE DISAPPEARING MISSILE GAP, 1961-1962; THE "NO-CITIES OPTION," 1961-1963; THE ARMS RACE RENEWED I: THE ABM "THREAT", 1965-1967; THE ARMS RACE RENEWED II: TENTATIVE DECISION AT SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER 1967; THE ARMS RACE RENEWED III: NEW OFFENSIVE WEAPONS, MIRV AND FOBS, 1963-1967; THE ARMS RACE RENEWED IV: UNITED STATES STRATEGIC-FORCES SUPERIORITY AS THE SPUR; CORRESPONDENCE; ENDNOTES

About the Author :
Editor: Dr Glen M. Segell FRGS, MRI, LRPS is Director of the Institute of Security Policy Author: Jim King obtained a BA and a MA from both Harvard and Oxford Universities and held the Italian Order of Merit. His PhD became a victim of World War II when he volunteered for service and was subsequently injured in Germany. His last job was in the CIA, following a successful career that included positions at the Institute of Defence Analysis, the Naval War College, John Hopkins University, and the Military Commission set up in Germany after World War II.