THE RETURN OF CONTAINMENT.

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  • Author(s): LARSON, DEBORAH WELCH
  • Source:
    Foreign Policy. Winter2021, Issue 239, p61-64. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      COLD War, 1945-1991; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; ANTI-communist movements; ISOLATIONISM; INTERNATIONALISM; MARSHALL Plan; CYBERTERRORISM
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on Cold War policy means for current moment and U.S. President Harry Truman who formally made containment U.S. policy in March 1947, during a speech to Congress in which he outlined what is now known as the Truman Doctrine. It mentions appeal to anti-communism resonated with isolationists and internationalists and resulting Marshall Plan's economic help had conditions. It also mentions Russia's use of hybrid warfare which relies on conventional and irregular warfare, disinformation, cyberattacks, covert action, and local forces to stir up low-level conflict is likewise unsuited to traditional military.