Table of Contents:
  • V. 1. The formative years, 1947-1950 / Steven L. Rearden
  • v. 2. The test of War, 1950-1953 / Doris M. Condit
  • v. 3. Strategy, money, and the New Look, 1953-1956 / Richard M. Leighton
  • v. 4. Into the missile age, 1956-1960 / Robert J. Watson
  • v. 5. The McNamara ascendancy, 1961-1965 / Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea
  • v. 6. McNamara, Clifford, and the burdens of Vietnam, 1965-1969 / Edward J. Drea
  • v. 7. Melvin Laird and the foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969-1973 / Richard A. Hunt
  • v. 9. Harold Brown : offsetting the Soviet military challenge, 1977-1981 / Edward C. Keefer
  • v. 10. Caspar Weinberger and the U.S. military buildup, 1981-1985.