1. George Kennan's American Diplomacy
... be that of a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." He correctly indicates that waging war is not always the most effective way to achieve goals, especially political goals because war does not change the way people think, if anything, it makes them less inclined to change because war brings nothing but "destruction, brutalization and sacrifice, of separations ... , domestic disintegration, and the weakening of the deeper fabrics of society--is a process which of itself can achieve no positive aims." With respect to military force, Kennan a...
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