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industry. However, during President Trumans term of office there was a man, George F.Kennan, whose ideas for containment would shape and change the perspective and policies of entire nations around
the world. George Kennan and his policy of containment is the plan which the cold war was based on, and as such determined much of the direction the United States
would take over the next century. "The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union," Kennan wrote, "must be that of a long-term, patient but firm
and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies"(Kennan 1997). However, at the time, this statement, which is part of a longer article, was anonymously submitted in the form of an anonymous
contribution to the journal Foreign Affairs, the so-called "X-Article." His strategy, he predicted, would eventually spell the end of communism in the Soviet Union. Amazingly so, his prediction has come
to pass as his theories were born out. His idea, simply put, was to halt the expansion of Russia into any more territories, and to counter their expansionist tendencies
through the "adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers of Soviet policy"(Kennan 1991). Perhaps
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, a noted columnist, attacked the strategy, stating that its definitions were
not clear, while others state that the article was too dogmatic and defensive in nature(Kennan 1997). What most misunderstood was that Kennan was not only implying that military force
be used, but offensive maneuvers, much like a chess game, designed to bring about a stalemate equilibrium. Kennan did not see the Soviet Union as a threat militarily, but politically.
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