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. 8: The Decline of Détente: Elliot Richardson, James Schlesinger, and Donald Rumsfeld

1973-1977

      

  Vol 9: Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge 

1977-1981

             

             

 

 

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 Richard A. Hunt

 2015
 Joel C. Christenson, Anthony R. Crain, and Richard A. Hunt

  2024          
 Edward C. Keefer

        2017     
 Vol. 10: Caspar Weinberger and the U.S. Military Buildup, 1981-1985

             
 

             


             



           

 

 

 

 
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 Edward C. Keefer

        2023