...the region where it already existed. So, too, were the advocates of containment, who maintained that "the main element of any United States policy toward...vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. . . . The Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can...

...policy of containment. This doctrine, framed and named by master diplomat George Kennan, held that "the main element of any United States policy toward...vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." 1 Under its aegis the United States for the first time created a national security apparatus that embraced...

...talking tough to the Russians were not enough, even if they seemed to produce temporary Soviet retreats. "The main element of any United States policy toward...vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." This policy would require "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly...

...recommends we not try to change the essential nature of the fluid but rather to limit its flow with "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (SSC, 575; my emphasis). Linking this prolonged policy to a projection of Soviet economic impotence...

...and cranny available to it in the basin of world power." Consequently, the United States must adopt a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies," while recognizing that this diking of a naturally expansive force "has nothing to do with outward histrionics:...

...recommends we not try to change the essential nature of the fluid, but rather to limit its flow with "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (575; emphasis added). Linking this prolonged policy to a projection of Soviet economic impotence (578),...

...Foreign Affairs, he outlined the "innate antagonism between capitalism and Socialism" and asserted that "the main element of any United States policy toward...firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies."14 The Cold War was, in this respect, a confrontation between fundamentally different social,...

...wide currency to the strategy of containment, which indeed had already been put into effect, to wit, 'United States policy toward the Soviet Union must...long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russia's expansionist tendencies.'8 'George Kennan came as close to authoring the diplomatic doctrine...

...to prove fruitless. Kennan's (1947) diagnosis of Soviet international behavior and his prescription of a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" were enormously influential in providing an intellectual framework for American policy toward Stalin's...

...in their application, than those of the Soviet Union itself. In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward...vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. It is important to note, however, that such a policy has nothing to do with outward histrionics: with...