Is There an Enemy?

Henry Kissinger’s third book on the Cold War confirms his already substantial reputation as a major commentator on international strategy and politics. Like its predecessors, it displays Kissinger’s rare ability to examine and make clear a class of issues peculiar to our age—that halfpolitical, half-technical thicket of obscurity which has sprung up at the confluence of nuclear sophistication and the forward rush of Communist aggression.

The partnership in Kissinger’s title is the NATO alliance. Its trouble is an accelerating tendency towards disintegration, brought on by a number of causes among which Kissinger rates transformation of nuclear technology and abrupt shifts in American nuclear strategy as foremost. He sets out to analyze these causes, to isolate correctable problems from those mandated by the nature of things, and to suggest a program for putting the former right and getting the alliance back on its feet.

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M. Stanton Evans

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Henry Kissinger’s third book on the Cold War confirms his already substantial reputation as a major commentator on international strategy and politics. Like its predecessors, it displays Kissinger’s rare ability to examine and make clear a class of issues peculiar to our age—that halfpolitical, half-technical thicket of obscurity which has sprung up at the confluence of nuclear sophistication and the forward rush of Communist aggression.

The partnership in Kissinger’s title is the NATO alliance. Its trouble is an accelerating tendency towards disintegration, brought on by a number of causes among which Kissinger rates transformation of nuclear technology and abrupt shifts in American nuclear strategy as foremost. He sets out to analyze these causes, to isolate correctable problems from those mandated by the nature of things, and to suggest a program for putting the former right and getting the alliance back on its feet.