National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union / Национальное самоубийство: военная помощь Советскому Союзу
Год издания: 1973
Автор: Antony C. Sutton / Энтони С. Саттон
Жанр или тематика: Политология, история новейшего времени
Издательство: Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York
ISBN: 978-1-939438-51-5
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Нет
Количество страниц: 194
Описание: Энтони Саттон работал профессором экономики в Калифорнийском университете, а с 1968 по 1973 год работал в качестве научного сотрудника в Гуверовском институте (подразделении Стэнфордского университета). Во время работы в Гуверовском институте Саттон написал трехтомник "Западные технологии и экономическое развитие СССР". В книге "Национальное самоубийство: военная помощь Советскому Союзу" Саттон в упрощенном и сжатом изложении опубликовал некоторые разделы готовившегося к печати третьего тома вышеуказанной работы, относившиеся к военным технологиям. Изучение Саттоном данного вопроса привело его к выводу о том, что конфликты эпохи "холодной войны" велись вовсе не для сдерживания коммунизма, поскольку посредством финансирования Советского Союза США прямо или через посредников вооружали обе воюющие стороны. По мнению Саттона, сами эти войны были организованы с целью получения многомиллиардных контрактов на поставку вооружений. Например, в США были разработаны и поставлялись в Советский Союз системы наведения ракет ПВО, которые использовались во вьетнамской войне. С помощью этих ракет было сбито около 4000 американских самолётов, что принесло новые заказы и большие прибыли авиационным корпорациям. После публикации этой книги Саттона вынудили покинуть Гуверовский институт, и Саттон становится независимым исследователем на вольных хлебах. Обновленная редакция этой книги, опубликованная под названием "Самый лучший враг, которого можно купить за деньги", была посвящена передаче военных технологий, происходившей в восьмидесятые годы прошлого века.
Antony Sutton was an economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973. During his time at the Hoover Institution, he wrote the major study "Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development" (in three volumes), arguing that the West played a major role in developing the Soviet Union from its very beginnings up until the present time (1970). In 1973, Sutton published a popularized, condensed version of the sections of the forthcoming third volume relevant to military technology called "National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union" after which he was forced out of the Hoover Institution. His conclusion from his research on the issue was that the conflicts of the Cold War were "not fought to restrain communism" since the United States, through financing the Soviet Union "directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam" but the wars were organised in order "to generate multibillion-dollar armaments contracts." The update to the text, "The Best Enemy Money Can Buy", looked at the role of military technology transfers up to the 1980s.
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Preface
Chapter 1 The "Détente"-Aggression Cycle
The History of "Peaceful Trade"
Technological Transfer Is the Critical Issue
The Mystical Foundations of Policy
The "Détente"-Aggression Cycle
Persecution of Russian Jews, Russian Baptists, and Lithuanian Catholics
External Soviet Aggression
Chapter 2 More Trade, More Casualties
The Causal Link between U. S.-Soviet Trade and U.S. Casualties in Vietnam
The Soviet Version of Soviet Intent
The Soviet Record of Aggression and War
The Korean War (1950-1953)
The Vietnamese War (1961-1973)
Chapter 3 Censorship and Our Military Assistance to the Soviet Union
Declassified U. S. Government Files as a Source of Information
Congressional Investigations and Unscheduled Leaks
The Soviet Union as a Source of Information
The Practical Effect of Censorship
Chapter 4 Construction of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex
The Soviet View of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex
The American View of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex
Western Construction of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex
Chapter 5 Direct Supply of Weapons and Military Assistance to the Soviets
From the Bolshevik Revolution to the Five-Year Plan
Purchase of Armaments in the United States
President Roosevelt's Secret Military Information Agreement with the Soviet Union
American Lend-Lease Supplies to the Soviet Union: 1941-1946
Plants for Production of Military Vehicles
U. S. Assistance for the Skoda Armaments Plants
American Accelerometers for Soviet Missiles
American Ball Bearings for Soviet Missiles
Chapter 6 American-Built Plants for Soviet Tanks and Armored Cars
The American-built Stalingrad "Tractor" Plant
Light Tanks from the American-built Kharkov "Tractor" Plant
The Chelyabinsk "Tractor" Plant
The Development of Soviet Tank Design to 1945
The Soviet T-34 Medium Tank
Soviet Tank Engines
Soviet Light Tanks
Armored Personnel Carriers
Chapter 7 American Assistance for Soviet Military Vehicles
The Soviet Military Truck Industry
Henry Ford and the Gorki "Automobile" Plant
Military Vehicles form the A. J. Brandt-Budd-Hamilton-ZIL Plant
American Equipment for the Volgograd Plant
The War Potential of the Kama Truck Plant
Chapter 8 Peaceful Explosives, Ammunition, and Guns
How the Soviets Make Nitrocellulose
Origins of Soviet Machine Guns
Soviet Weapons Used against Americans in Vietnam
Chapter 9 Helping the Russians at Sea
Soviet Facilities for Construction of Naval and Merchant Vessels
Role of the United States and Its Allies in Building the Soviet Navy before World War II
Submarine Construction, 1920-1972
The Strategic Merchant Marine of 1972
How the Soviets Have Used their Western-built Merchant Marine
State Department Approval for the Soviet Vessels That Carried Missiles to Cuba
"Soviet" Merchant Ships on the Haiphong Supply Run
Chapter 10 From the "Ilya Mourometz" to the Supersonic "Konkordskiy"
The First Commercial Plane Able to Fly the Atlantic Nonstop
Bombers and Amphibians from Seversky Aircraft Corporation
The Consolidated Aircraft Company (Catalina), Douglas, and Vultee
American and French Designs for Soviet Aircraft Engines
The Wright Cyclone Engine in the Soviet Union
The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engine in the Soviet Union
The Gnome-Rhone (France) Engine in the Soviet Union
The German and British Contribution to the Postwar Soviet Air Force
The Boeing B-29 Four-engined Bomber Becomes the Tu-4 and the Tu-70
Aircraft Plant No. 1 at Kuibyshev
Development of the First Soviet Jet Engine
MiG Fighters with Rolls-Royce Turbojets
The Supersonic Tu-144 (Alias "Konkordskiy")
Chapter 11 Space, Missiles, and Military Instrumentation
German Assistance for the Soviet Missile and Space Program
From the German V-2 to Sputnik and Lunik
Why Did the Soviets Embark on a Space Program?
U. S.-Soviet "Cooperation" in Space
The ABM Treaty
Military Instrumentation
U. S. Assistance for Soviet Military Computers
Chapter 12 Congress and the Bureaucrats
Congressional Attempts to Prevent Military Assistance to the Soviet Union
The Bureaucrats' View of "Peaceful Trade"
The State Department and Military Intelligence Information
The State Department's "Exchange" Program
Breakdown of the State Department Facade
The State Department's Policy of Misinformation
Chapter 13 Why National Suicide--Some Answers
A Wise and Deliberate Policy Aimed at Creating a Peaceful World
An Accident--The Establishment Did Not Know It Was Helping the Soviets
Our Policy Is Pragmatic. It Is Not Consistent with Any Long-run Objectives at All
Our Foreign Policy Is Based on Mysticism and Altruism
Is It Treason?
What Is to Be Done?
Appendix A: Some background Information about National Suicide
Appendix B: Testimony of the Author Before Subcommittee VII of the Platform Committee of the Republican Party at Miami Beach, Florida, August 15, 1972, at 2:30 p.m.
Appendix C: Specifications of the Ninety-six Soviet Ships Identified Transporting Weapons and Supplies to North Vietnam, 1966-71
Selected Bibliography
