This concept was defined in a May 4, 1948, memorandum produced by the State Department's policy planning staff under George Kennan: Political warfare is the logical application of Clausewitz's ...

Almost alone among the so-called Wise Men of the U.S. foreign policy establishment of the early Cold War years, George F. Kennan had the wisdom to imagine an alternative future to the perpetually ...

"Following the logic of our present policy in Vietnam, it is difficult to conceive to date of an outcome that would be less than disastrous," foreign policy expert George F. Kennan said yesterday.