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Article: Uncle Sam in a grave new world. (national security policies)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- January 25, 1988
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Uncle Sam in a grave new world
Ronald Reagan's foreign-policy agenda for 1988--ambitious but no longer laughably so--is fixed: Another arms-control deal with Moscow, easing the Sandinista grip on Nicaragua, hanging on in the Persian Gulf. With luck, Reagan can claim credit for nudging the Soviets out of Afghanistan. What he cannot do is resolve for his successor a disorderly debate over how to project U.S. power at tolerable cost.
At the heart of the debate is a 38-year-old strategy for dealing with the Soviet Union, laid out in a seminal document of U.S. foreign policy--NSC 68. The 1950 study by the National Security Council defined the Soviet Union ...