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" Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts... "
Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War Reader - Page 115
edited by - 2005 - 288 pages
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The Awesome Power: Harry S. Truman as Commander in Chief

Richard F. Haynes - 1999 - 372 pages
...free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points." 2 Truman said that it is a mistake to call his foreign policy a policy of containment: "This is not...
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General MacArthur and President Truman: The Struggle for Control of American ...

Richard Halworth Rovere - 366 pages
...for "maximum counterforce." It required rather what Kennan has described as "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers of Soviet policy." It required, in other words, the use of...
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Modernity and Power: A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century

Frank Ninkovich - 1994 - 436 pages
...its practical application, which Kennan first defined in his "X" article as "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points." But the disagreements would only surface later, as the United States was faced with a choice between...
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The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy ...

Seyom Brown - 1994 - 684 pages
...vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." This policy would require "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers of Soviet policy."29 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTAINMENT The...
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American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and ...

John Lamberton Harper - 1996 - 404 pages
...something like the famous formula set forth in "The Sources of Soviet Conduct": "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and manoeuvres of Soviet policy, but which cannot be charmed or talked...
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Political Style: The Artistry of Power

Robert Hariman - 2010 - 272 pages
...free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers of Soviet policy, but which cannot be charmed or talked out...
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age

James G. Hershberg - 1995 - 980 pages
...aggression could only be "contained" by American might— what Kennan termed the "adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points."79 Rapidly, despite qualms by commentators such as Walter Lippmann who worried about the administration's...
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The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World ...

Richard Crockatt - 1995 - 454 pages
...these circumstances the United States must seek to contain Soviet power by the 'adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly...shifting geographical and political points' (Kennan 1947: 573, 575, 576). Kennan's prescriptions for American policy appear to be unmistakably global in...
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Walter Lippmann: Odyssey of a Liberal

Barry D. Riccio - 1994 - 264 pages
...provided the intellectual rationale for containment. Kennan had called for "the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points," apparently believing that such a policy would actually effectuate the dissolution of the Soviet empire.52...
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Idealism and Liberal Education

James O. Freedman - 2001 - 198 pages
...called for a policy of containment based, as he wrote in a famous phrase, on "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points." Kennan's proposal for a policy of containment became the underpinning of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall...
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