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.

Rob Williams
Lessons from History
10 min readMar 13, 2023

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Two views of containment and the relative positions of the U.S. and Soviet Union after World War II. (The Strategy Bridge)

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Rob Williams
Lessons from History

Historian. I write about history and my military/veteran experience. Working on a book about the airborne mafia | Tweets @rfmwilliams visit: rfmwilliams.com