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Secretaries of Defense Historical Series
Vol 1: The Formative Years
1947-1950
Vol 2: The Test of War
1950-1953
Vol 3: Strategy, Money, and the New Look
1953-1956
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Stephen L. Rearden
1984
Doris M. Condit
1988
Richard M. Leighton
2001
Vol 4: Into the Missile Age
1956-1960
Vol 5: The McNamara Ascendancy
1961-1965
Vol 6: McNamara, Clifford, and the Burdens of Vietnam
1965-1969
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Robert J. Watson
1997
Kaplan, Landa, Drea
2006
Edward J. Drea
2011
Vol 7: Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military
1969-1973
Vol 9: Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge
1977-1981
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Document Supplement
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Richard A. Hunt
2015
Edward C. Keefer
2017
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