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The Strategic Plan that Won the Cold War

National Security Decision Directive 75

Publication Date: 1999

The most authoritative report yet published about President Reagan's strategy to accelerate the demise of the Soviet Union, this monograph focuses on National Security Decision Directive 75, prepared in early 1983, to run economic warfare against the USSR. The author served as senior director of national security planning and international economic affairs on the National Security Council, and special assistant to the president for national security affairs. {read more}