 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1980 - 408 pages
...the United States entering with reasonable confidence upon a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world. But in actuality the possibilities for American policy are by no means limited to holding the line... | |
 | Erik Peter Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron - 778 pages
...of world power," our response was fateful and straightforward: we must, Kennan argued and we agreed, "confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world." Since then, however, the international setting has grown constantly more complex, adding powerful new... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 1982 - 452 pages
...Truman Doctrine: it appeared even more explicitly in Kennan's "X" article, which spoke of the need "to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world."i0 By the time that article was published in Joly 1947. though, Kennan had hegun to move toward... | |
 | Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas - 1997 - 852 pages
...action-oriented Navy Secretary. The goal, Kennan said, was "a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world. " The prospects for such a policy elicited a rare sense of elation in Kennan. The "vigilant application... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...that its own survival depended on undermining American power. Thus the Soviets needed to be confronted 'with unalterable counter-force at every point where...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world'. Kennan's analysis fitted neatly with the recent exasperating experience of the Truman administration... | |
 | David Mayers - 1990 - 416 pages
...which to thwart Soviet mischief. In the final draft, he discussed the need for a policy "designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world."14 Partly a recapitulation of ideas that he had been expressing for years, Kennan' s essay was... | |
 | Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird, Frederic J. Fleron - 876 pages
...the United States entering with reasonable confidence upon a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world. But in actuality the possibilities for American policy are by no means limited to holding the line... | |
 | Thomas G. Paterson - 1992 - 326 pages
...the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs that recommended a "policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counter-force...encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world."5 As Acheson put it, the United States had to resist a Soviet "pincer movement" threatening... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - 1994 - 242 pages
...of world power." The way to defeat Soviet strategy was by "a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world." [H: Interpreted: "To bash every natural Russian while supporting and furthering the integration of... | |
 | Thomas J. McCormick - 1995 - 316 pages
..."containment policy," first articulated a year earlier by Kennan: "a policy of firm containment designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce...upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world." The Truman Doctrine was a brilliant if disingenuous attempt to do three key things, all of them germane... | |
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States entering with reasonable confidence upon a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce at every point where they show signs of encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world. 
