%0 Book %1 Brodie:1959 %A Brodie, Bernard %B Strategy in the Missile Age %C Princeton, NJ %D 1959 %I Princeton University Press %K nuclear security strategic strategy theory %P vii, 423 p. %T Strategy in the missile age %X Strategy in the Missile Age was written during the dawn of the nuclear age, when the advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles necessitated a massive rethinking of military strategy and power. Originally published in 1959, it retains ample relevance today for its discussion of the origins of air power, its cornerstone position in the evolution of Cold War era nuclear strategy, and its treatment of preventive and preemptive attacks, deterrence, and the economics of strategy. Brodie, who believed nuclear war was ``unthinkable,'' thought much about the unthinkable and helped provide an intellectual framework for avoiding a nuclear catastrophe.

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