Content -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Trojan Horse of National Security -- I NSC-68 and the Outbreak of the Korean War Toward a Piecemeal Mobilization, April-November 1950 -- II "An EntirelyNew War" The Chinese Intervention and the Institutionalization of Rearmament, December-January 1951 -- III Labor's Cold Shoulder The Price and Wage Freeze and a Crisis-Filled Spring, February-May 1951 -- IV The Politics of Rearmament Guns or Butter or Guns and Butter? June-December 1951 -- V Crises of Con dence The Steel Crisis, Congressional Intransigence, and the Evolution of National Security, January-June 1952 -- VI Toward a Tenuous Normalcy Decontrol and the General's Arrival, July 1952-February 1953 -- Toward an American Sparta? Legacies of the Korean Era -- Bibliography -- Index.