...maintained that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. . . . The Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can...

...article he stated: the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.... Soviet society may well contain deficiencies which will eventually weaken its own total potential.......

...1946) "It is clear that the main element of any US policy towards the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." (7"ty 1947)2 Ever since then George Kennan has kept explaining that "Mr X" has been misunderstood....

...is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. It is important to note, however, that such a policy has nothing to do with outward histrionics: with...

...declared that "(t)he main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (Kennan 1947, p. 575) — "containment" that was soon defined chiefly in military terms. Thus the rhetoric...

...of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department, reinforced the Truman message by calling for "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." Such a commitment seemed to imply a military blockade of the Soviet empire — an interpretation that...

...Kennan, held that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." 1 Under its aegis the United States for the first time created a national security apparatus that embraced...

...Soviet retreats. "The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." This policy would require "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly...

...recommends we not try to change the essential nature of the fluid but rather to limit its flow with "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (SSC, 575; my emphasis). Linking this prolonged policy to a projection of Soviet economic impotence...

...and cranny available to it in the basin of world power." Consequently, the United States must adopt a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies," while recognizing that this diking of a naturally expansive force "has nothing to do with outward histrionics:...