A nation must think before it acts.
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. By Aaron L. Friedberg. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000).
A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Hogan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).