Book Analysis of Containing the Soviet Union.

Abstract

This paper is a book analysis of Containing the Soviet Union: A Critique of U.S. Policy', edited by Terry L. Deibel and John Lewis Gaddis. The book is a collection of articles that offers different perspectives on the past and future of the policy of containment. The paper provides background to the policy of containment and briefly traces its evolution. The paper concludes the idea of containment will continue to be an important part of U.S. foreign policy, and proposes what the policy of containment should look like during the remainder of this decade and into the 1990s.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA194278

Entities

People

  • Michael L. Merritt

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Economic Warfare
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Budgets
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Treaties
  • War
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.