Publisher's Synopsis
This book highlights the impact and relevance of "strategic culture". This concept is particularly well-suited to covering a lot of ground and reaching multiple audiences. With them in mind the chapters have been designed as succint essays of synthesis on different aspects of the intertwined yet distinct strategic considerations of the USA and the USSR; they are conceptual, and not excessively academic, or technical. Each section contains essays contrasting United States and Soviet perceptions on specific topics. Each section closes with a sythesizing commentary, to help readers to get a better sense of differences and similarities.
