Deterring Armageddon

Resumen del libro

The inside story of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.Born in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was designed to prevent World War III, in all the different conflicts and countries that could have happened in the last 75 years. Tracing the geopolitical shifts through the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis, the formation of the EU and the global financial crisis, Deterring Armageddon takes the reader from backroom deals to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and through the killing fields of the Balkans and Afghanistan.NATO now faces perhaps the most dangerous era since its creation and will play a crucial war in shaping global politics and relations in the decades to come. NATO's is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military posturing - as well as bureaucrats, spies and ordinary civilians, officials and military personnel. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the unravelling of Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history - and looks ahead to what might happen next.