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Defense One
April 3, 2018
The Marshall Plan — formally, the European Recovery Program — was the first major policy component of U.S. diplomat George Kennan's new strategy of “containing” the Soviet Union, which he outlined in an important Foreign Affairs article in 1947. The aid tendered, as a percentage of U.S. output, would ...
WTOP
March 26, 2018
And it was another diplomat, George F. Kennan, deputy chief of mission in Moscow, whose experience and insights proved decisive in shaping half a century of U.S. foreign policy. Kennan's approach was summarized first in a so-called “long telegram” in 1946, and later published in slightly revised form in ...
Texas Standard
March 26, 2018
Before his meeting with Khrushchev, Kennedy prepared intensively by talking to a number of American experts on the Soviet Union, such as George F. Kennan and Llewellyn E. Thompson. However, the President was unprepared in the sense that he had never been in a meeting like that one before.
The New European
March 24, 2018
Written in 1946, George Kennan's 'Long Telegram' from Moscow, where he was serving as a US diplomat, became the West's founding text for handling the Soviet Union, and his analysis of the Kremlin's methods and motivations remains remarkably relevant today. In the 5,500-word document, sent to ...
Daily Free Press (blog)
March 23, 2018
The West is similarly conflicted, recognizing the necessity of countering and preventing Russia's growing influence, but having neither the resources nor the initiative to do anything about it. Former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan noted that through the expansion of NATO “[the United ...
Tulsa World
March 11, 2018
This is a textbook case of what George Kennan called political war: “the employment of all the means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national objectives. Such operations are both overt and covert. They range from such overt actions as political alliances, economic measures . . . and ...
The Times
March 11, 2018
The programme was devised by Dean Acheson, George Kennan, the Mississippi cotton trader turned government economist Will Clayton, and US secretary of state George C Marshall, who gave it his name. On June 5, 1947, in a speech at Harvard University, Marshall, the former chief of the army, vividly ...
IndraStra Global
March 5, 2018
In this article, we will focus on the fourth scenario out of four possible ones, which is in continuation to Scenario One, Scenario Two and Scenario Three published earlier. Our main goal, however, is to use the scenario tools in order to “describe” a hypothetically possible development of the Russia-Ukraine ...
European Council on Foreign Relations
March 1, 2018
When George Kennan wrote his famous “Long Telegram”, the 1946 dispatch to US secretary of state James Byrnes that laid the foundation of America's containment policy on the Soviet Union, he mentioned Josef Stalin just three times. This was despite the fact that, at the time, the Soviet leader ran his ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
February 16, 2018
GEORGE KENNAN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904. The U.S. diplomat coined the phrase "containment policy.” He served as a diplomat during WWII and was briefly arrested by the Nazis. After the war, Kennan wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine that had a significant influence on America's ...
The Diplomat
December 4, 2017
The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan is most remembered for authoring the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946, which examined the historical and ideological bases of Soviet foreign policy. It is one of the seminal documents of the early Cold War years, and it helped shape ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 22, 2016
And that means looking to its founder, George F. Kennan. In the late 1940s, as U.S.-Soviet confrontation heated up, Kennan — who served as deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, and later as ambassador himself — offered a comprehensive plan for managing that rivalry in two famous papers: a 1946 ...
Smithsonian
September 30, 2016
The enduring irony of George F. Kennan's life was just how much the architect of America's Cold War “containment” strategy—aimed at stopping Soviet expansionism—loved Russia. Kennan arguably played a larger role in shaping the U.S.'s view of a major foreign power, and thus our relations with that ...
Rutgers-Camden NewsNow
December 31, 1999
“I've wanted to spend time there since I had read George Kennan's description of it in his memoirs,” she says, referring to the Cold War-era American diplomat and historian. Epstein plans to devote her scholarship to discovering the hidden history behind the “State Secrets Privilege,” a controversial government privilege that ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
What is most useful is to go back to George Kennan for a lesson. Kennan was a leading diplomat and historian who served in the US embassy in Moscow during the 1940s and 1950s, and briefly as ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Truman. During his tenure he developed the concept of ...
The Interpreter
December 31, 1999
As a concept, containment dates back to the beginning of the Cold War and US diplomat George Kennan's infamous Long Telegram which first articulated the outlines of a policy that could be used to peacefully contain Soviet efforts to globalise their ideology and influence. American policymakers have ...
The Australian
February 8, 2018
The veteran US diplomat and Soviet expert George Kennan had written in 1997 that “expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era” and that such a decision might be expected “to restore the atmosphere of the Cold War to East-West relations”.
Jamaica Gleaner
February 7, 2018
-For Russia, he believes in 'a policy of containment' of its foreign policy ambitions as advocated by George Kennan, the strategic US geopolitical planner who shaped modern US foreign policy. -Unlike President Trump, Secretary Tillerson supports the Iranian Deal because, according to him, America's ...
The American Conservative
February 7, 2018
A Requiem for Vietnam. Forty-three years ago a symposium of writers from George Kennan to Gore Vidal surveyed the damage—and offered prescient warnings for our wars today. By Andrew J. Bacevich • February 7, 2018 ...
Breaking Defense
February 2, 2018
Given the likely costs and risks of conventional and nuclear war with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, much of the competition will likely be unconventional—and include what former U.S. State Department diplomat George Kennan referred to as “political warfare.” The term political warfare refers to the ...
Asia Media International
February 1, 2018
One of America's great diplomats was the late George Kennan. The U.S. Foreign Service author of the 'Long Telegram' from Moscow coined – and mostly even defined – the iconic policy of “containment” as the needed antidote to the poison of the former Soviet Union. And though Ambassador Kennan's ...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
January 31, 2018
When she landed in New York in April 1967, she was greeted by George Kennan, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Kennan was a complicated man. He was considered a brilliant thinker, one of the architects of the Cold War, but he longed for a time when pioneers made a living off the land, ...
smallwarsjournal
January 22, 2018
Celebrated Cold War strategist, George Kennan, had termed the possible NATO expansion eastwards a 'tragic mistake'.[ii] Kennan knew the Baltics first hand as his distinguished diplomat career was launched in Riga, Latvia, then a key US 'listening post' for Soviet Union affairs. Kennan never questioned ...
Slate Magazine
January 19, 2018
Throughout our history, even advocates of realpolitik—a foreign policy built strictly on the pursuit of vital interests and a balance of power—have acknowledged that, in the competition for influence, America gains an advantage from the appeal of its ideals. George Kennan, the architect of our Cold War ...
Greenville Journal
January 18, 2018
Our cover model, Henry Johnson, started collecting WW1 paraphernalia when he was 15. He now owns well over a dozen types of firearms that were used by the U.S. during the war, and the entirety of the gear issued to U.S. soldiers before and during the war including accoutrements, uniforms, munitions, ...
New Republic
January 12, 2018
The diplomat George Kennan's private diaries revealed him to be a bigot, but his nasty opinion of foreigners (he described an Italian he met as a “typical dago ... talkative in a weak, ignorant, furtive, sneering way,” and called Iraqis “a population unhygienic in its habits”) came out only after his death.
Science News
January 6, 2018
HELP UNWANTED Bonobos, such as this adult male housed at an African sanctuary, prefer individuals who hinder others over those that help, a new study finds. In contrast, humans typically favor helpers over hinderers, starting in infancy. C. Krupenye. Email. Email. Print. Print. Twitter. Twitter. Facebook.
PanAm Post
December 26, 2017
During this period, U.S. foreign policy was guided by the intellect of George F. Kennan and a group of colleagues know as “The Wise Men. ... ignorance, told the author that he did not need any new grand strategy; “I don't really even need George Kennan right now”- but, rather the right strategic partners.
New York Times
December 22, 2017
HAPPY OLD YEAR: Half a century ago, in the winter after the Summer of Love, American reading habits were as turbulent as the culture at large. William Styron's novel of slave rebellion, “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” ruled the fiction best-seller list of Dec. 31, 1967, where it was joined by titles as varied ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 9, 2017
In his Middle East-centric history, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, author Peter Frankopan cites observations made in 1946 by George Kennan, then U.S. charge d'affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which are shockingly revealing of the intent behind Russia's efforts to undermine the 2016 ...
The Diplomat
December 4, 2017
The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan is most remembered for authoring the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946, which examined the historical and ideological bases of Soviet foreign policy. It is one of the seminal documents of the early Cold War years, and it helped shape ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
June 13, 2017
In his own way, Trump may be fulfilling the long held ambition of George Kennan on the world order. And while the transition is risky, it may ultimately be for the best. To see why, we need to realise just how different US policy is today compared with the vision of the man credited with its post-war creation.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 22, 2016
And that means looking to its founder, George F. Kennan. In the late 1940s, as U.S.-Soviet confrontation heated up, Kennan — who served as deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, and later as ambassador himself — offered a comprehensive plan for managing that rivalry in two famous papers: a 1946 ...
Smithsonian
September 30, 2016
The enduring irony of George F. Kennan's life was just how much the architect of America's Cold War “containment” strategy—aimed at stopping Soviet expansionism—loved Russia. Kennan arguably played a larger role in shaping the U.S.'s view of a major foreign power, and thus our relations with that ...
The Diplomat
April 15, 2015
George Kennan's Geopolitics of the Far East ... The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan is mostly known for writing the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946 that warned of the growing Soviet threat to the West, and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” in 1947 in Foreign Affairs, which ...
New Yorker
November 6, 2011
The one puzzle in John Lewis Gaddis's first-rate biography of the diplomat George Kennan, which Gaddis began in 1982, when his subject was seventy-eight, and waited nearly thirty years to complete, since Kennan lived to be a hundred and one, is the subtitle. The book is called “George F. Kennan: An ...
cvobserver.com
December 31, 1999
Perhaps we need to recall the wisdom of George F. Kennan. First things first – the news conference at City Hall. The Rental Housing Registry will be a city-run online listing of Fresno's rental residential properties. The city has tens of thousands of rental units – large apartment complexes, small apartment ...
smallwarsjournal
December 31, 1999
“Political warfare” is a form of strategy that leverages all of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic capabilities at a nation's disposal to achieve its strategic objectives. Best described in a 1948 State Department memorandum by US Ambassador George Kennan, political warfare involved:.
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
“A Force So Swift” chronicles these epic changes through the eyes of a star-studded cast that includes President Harry Truman, the diplomat George Kennan, United States Representative Walter Judd, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong and ...
Daily Times
December 11, 2017
The Cold War brought along the policy of containment, set forth by George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of the US mission to the USSR (1944-1946). From Moscow, Kennan sent an eight-thousand-word long telegram received in Washington on February 22, 1946. The telegram convinced US President Harry ...
Anniston Star
December 10, 2017
Averell Harriman. George F. Kennan. George C. Marshall. John J. McCloy. Harry Truman. They were visionaries who sewed capital into the war-torn nations of Europe through the Marshall Plan to speed the recovery of friend and foe alike, and not incidentally, open new markets for American manufacture.
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 10, 2017
In his Middle East-centric history, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, author Peter Frankopan cites observations made in 1946 by George Kennan, then U.S. charge d'affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which are shockingly revealing of the intent behind Russia's efforts to undermine the 2016 ...
Richmond County Daily Journal
December 6, 2017
Robert Lee's Dec. 2 narrative about America's founding years segues well into some considerations about the powerful global leadership we have assumed. George F. Kennan spent over three decades as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. His 1946 observations, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” ...
Richmond County Daily Journal
December 5, 2017
Robert Lee's Dec. 2 narrative about America's founding years segues well into some considerations about the powerful global leadership we have assumed. George F. Kennan spent over three decades as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. His 1946 observations, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” ...
Svenska Dagbladet
December 5, 2017
One of the authors of that policy, George Kennan, concluded in his long telegram of 1946 that “the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet Communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.” This is worth bearing in mind as the Russia investigation ...
The Guardian
December 4, 2017
While many of these publications worked as platforms for cold warriors such as the US diplomat George Kennan and helped to squash intellectual debate of the Vietnam war, others became radical trailblazers almost by accident: Nigeria's Black Orpheus was one of the first journals to publish traditional ...
Jacobin magazine
December 4, 2017
Ten Days that Shook the World, Reed's celebratory account of the Russian Revolution, is now hailed as an American classic. George Kennan of all people praised it as “a reflection of blazing honesty and a purity of idealism.” In a recent New York Times retrospective, Condoleezza Rice, no Bolshevik, writes ...
The Diplomat
December 4, 2017
The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan is most remembered for authoring the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946, which examined the historical and ideological bases of Soviet foreign policy. It is one of the seminal documents of the early Cold War years, and it helped shape ...
Scout
December 1, 2017
Everyone, for instance, knows by now that George Kennan, one of America's most famous diplomats and foreign policy thinkers of the twentieth century, starkly warned against NATO expansion in the 1990s (and he was hardly alone), but successive U.S. administrations pressed ahead anyways. There is no ...
New York Times
November 24, 2017
This was largely because of the writings and influential public lectures of George Kennan, an American explorer who returned from Siberia in ...
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