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" Kennan's retrospective judgment was: ... the failure to make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat, but the political containment of a political... "
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The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy

Erik Peter Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron - 778 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat, but the political containment of a political threat."2 Professor Schlesinger, in his article below, presents a classic "traditional" or "orthodox"...
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Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of ...

Jerry Wayne Sanders - 1983 - 394 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat,...but the political containment of a political threat. 40 Thus, by 1950, Kennan rightly feared that continuing support of containment logic as it was freely...
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Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of ...

Jerry Wayne Sanders - 1983 - 394 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat,...but the political containment of a political threat. 40 Thus, by 1950, Kennan rightly feared that continuing support of containment logic as it was freely...
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Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of ...

Jerry Wayne Sanders - 1983 - 394 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat,...but the political containment of a political threat. w Thus, by 1950, Kennan rightly feared that continuing support of containment logic as it was freely...
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Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of ...

Robert Litwak - 1984 - 244 pages
...article: '. . . what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat, but the political containment of a political threat.'14 The course of events in 1948-9 (eg the Berlin blockade, the Soviet detonation of an atomic...
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The Use and Abuse of Sovietology

Leopold Å abÄ dź - 1989 - 402 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat,...the political containment of a political threat"; (3) the failure "to make clear that the "containment" of which I was speaking was not something that...
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The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair

Harold Hongju Koh - 1990 - 356 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat,...the political containment of a political threat"). 149. See T. Lowi, supra note 47, at 165-66. CHAPTER 4: THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR 1. Youngstown Sheet &...
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La guerre du Vietnam et la société américaine

Bernadette Rigal-Cellard - 1991 - 284 pages
...to entertain." In the Mr. X article, he intended to present the doctrine of containment as "not the containment by military means of a military threat,...the political containment of a political threat." By the end of the 1950's he holds, "none of the Communist parties (with the possible exception of the...
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Soviet Foreign Policy

Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird, Frederic J. Fleron - 876 pages
...make clear that what I was talking about when I mentioned the containment of Soviet power was not the containment by military means of a military threat, but the political containment of a political threat."71 In a "traditional" or "orthodox" interpretation of the origins of the cold war, Arthur Schlesinger...
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America's Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security ...

Willard C. Matthias - 2003 - 380 pages
...was his "failure to make clear" that when he mentioned "containment of Soviet power" it was "not the containment by military means of a military threat, but the political containment of a political threat."1' He explained his views at considerable length in those memoirs, which were written some...
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