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The Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America

The Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America

Lynch, Edward A.

Paperback

Series: Global Academic Publishing

20th Century United States HistoryCentral American HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1438439482
ISBN13: 9781438439488
Publisher: Distribution Partners
Published: Jul 2 2013
Pages: 349
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

An engaging insider's account by a member of President Reagan's Central America policy team.

Central America was the final place where U.S. and Soviet proxy forces faced off against one another in armed conflict. In The Cold War's Last Battlefield, Edward A. Lynch blends his own first-hand experiences as a member of the Reagan Central America policy team with interviews of policy makers and exhaustive study of primary source materials, including once-secret government documents, in order to recount these largely forgotten events and how they fit within Reagan's broader foreign policy goals. Lynch's compelling narrative reveals a president who was willing to risk both influence and image to aggressively confront Soviet expansion in the region. He also demonstrates how the internal debates between competing sides of the Reagan administration were really an argument about the basic thrust of U.S. foreign policy, and that they anticipated, to a remarkable degree, policy discussions following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

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