Cold War Foreign Policy Series

Special Study #1

Establishing the Secretary's Role: James Forrestal

Special Study #2

Rearming at the Dawn of the Cold War: Louis Johnson,George Marshall, and Robert Lovett
1949-1952

Special Study #3

Evolution of the Secretary of Defense in the Era of Massive Retaliation: Charles Wilson, Neil McElroy, and Thomas Gates 1953-1961

Full Volume

Jeffrey A. Larsen and Erin R. Mahan

June 2011

Jeffrey A. Larsen and Robert M. Shelala II

February 2012

Erin R. Mahan and Jeffrey A. Larsen

September 2012

Special Study #4

The Ascendancy of the Secretary of Defense: Robert S. McNamara, 1961-1963

Special Study #5

Expanding the Secretary's Role in Foreign Affairs: Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford
1963-1968

Special Study #6

Melvin Laird and Nixon's Quest for a Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy, 1969-1973

Full Volume

Erin R. Mahan and Jeffrey A Larsen

July 2013

Joel C. Christenson

September 2014

Richard A. Hunt

September 2014

Special Study #7

The Decline of Détente: Elliot Richardson, James Schlesinger, and Donald Rumsfeld, 1973-1977

Special Study #8

Harold Brown and the Imperatives of Foreign Policy, 1977-1981

Full Volume

Walter S. Poole

September 2015

Edward C. Keefer

September 2017