Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Military assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study the Foreign Aid Program
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Category : Military assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: United States. President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program
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Category : Military assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Richard F. Grimmett
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Languages : en
Pages : 13

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Author: United States President of the United States
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Robert J. Pranger
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: EE. UU. President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Chester J. Pach Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469650657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487

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In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a worldwide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach analyzes the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid--for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe--to contain Communist expansion during the late 1940s. He shows that a crucial event was the passage of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, the progenitor of a long series of global, Cold War arms measures. Pach demonstrates that the main impetus for the startling growth of military assistance was a belief that it would provide critical political and psychological reassurance to friendly nations. Although this aid was ostensibly provided for military purposes, the overriding goals were insuring goodwill, raising foreign morale, stiffening the will to resist communism, and proving American resolve and reliability. Policymakers, Pach contends, confused means with ends by stressing the symbolic importance of furnishing aid. They sought additional appropriations with the threat that any diminution or cessation of aid suggested a weakening of American commitment. Pach reveals that civilian, not military, officials were the principal advocates of the expansion of military aid, and he shows how the policies established during the Truman administration continued to exert a profound influence throughout the Cold War. Some officials questioned the self-perpetuating qualities of military aid programs, but Pach concludes that their warnings went unheeded. Although fiscal restraints in the Truman administration temporarily stemmed the growth of aid, the Korean War exploded budgetary limitations. MIlitary assistance spending expanded rapidly in size and scope, gaining a momentum that succeeding administrations could not resist. Originally published in 1991. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author: United States. President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program
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Category : Military assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Irving Heymont
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Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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The purpose of the paper is to identify and describe significant sources of foreign assistance and their interrelations, with emphasis on the US programs of assistance to less-developed nations. It is designed to provide a partial basis for further studies on coordination and effectiveness of these programs including problems associated with coordination of US economic and military assistance programs (MAPs). The paper covers programs and agencies extending capital grants and loans, investment guarantees, technical assistance, and other forms of economic assistance primarily to less-developed countries. Public sources such as governments, UN agencies, and US voluntary agencies are described. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is also covered because of its role in stabilizing currencies that otherwise would endanger national development programs although it is not a source of economic aid in direct support of development programs. Military assistance is included only to the extent of the US program because of problems in coordinating US economic and military assistance. (Author).