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Containment was the strategy by which the United States waged the Cold War. It had a variety of meanings at its inception, and evolved over the forty-five years of its existence. The key goals of containment were to limit the spread of Soviet power and Communist ideology.
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This thesis examines George F. Kennan‟s coherence and consistency when he formulated the strategy of containment. Kennan‟s work went through different stages which depended on the political context it was set in as circumstances evolved and the position he held.
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Containment: From Theory to Practice . 49. nation’s founding, America’s leaders had agreed that the country’s economic . prosperity, and global stability in general, depended on an integrated global economy that encouraged trade and investments across national borders. Although they often breached their own commitment to free trade,
George F. Kennan and the Birth of Containment. The Greek Test Case. John O. Iatrides. Historians disagree on the causes of the Cold War and differ widely in their assess-ment of the significance of particular actions and policy pronouncements of its principal U.S. protagonists.
Kennan argued that the primary task of containment was to safeguard four of the five regions in which "the sinews of modern military strength could be produced in quantity." Those vital regions were Great Britain, the Rhine valley, Japan, and the United States—the fifth being the Soviet Union. The.
George F. Kennan, it was first published under the pseudonym of "X." It was a closely reasoned, elegantly drafted analysis of Soviet foreign policy, its motives and ambitions. Perhaps more important, the article presented a strong prescription for American policy. Kennan argued that compared to the West,
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Abstract. Kennan’s abrupt transition from career diplomat to Cold War strategist grew out of more than just an “outrageous encumberment of the telegraphic process.”1 By the time the “long telegram” had won him the reputation of being the government’s foremost Soviet expert, there was already in his writing and thinking a depth of ...
