The Evolution of American Cold War Containment Strategy

If strategy is a calculated relationship between ends, ways, and means, then during the Cold War, American strategic ends — containment of the Soviet Union — remained unchanged. Containment meant preventing Soviet expansion and military aggression, often through military deterrence. The strategy employed — be it the Truman Doctrine, New Look, Flexible Response, Détente, or…

Operation PBSUCCESS

Early CIA regime change operations During the Cold War, the United States maintained nominal control over the Western Hemisphere — Latin American in particular. U.S. foreign policy attitudes toward its southern neighbors are characterized as paternalistic at best and interventionist at worst in the centuries leading up to World War II. The early nineteenth century…