Download or read book The Military Balance in the Cold War written by David Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact of American perceptions of the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the key period of 1976-1985. That decade witnessed the decline of the US-Soviet d nte and the resurgence of superpower confrontation, often called theSecond Cold War. Among the factors contributing to this shift was