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Cavanaugh clearly was oriented on explicating on his role as a military strategist. My proposed changes would offset the perception that this is a military officerâs definition of what strategy is and what strategists do, or the notion that only military strategists are truly strategic. Thus, my counter-proposal:
Milestones: 1945â1952. George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of âcontainment,â the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947â1989) with the Soviet Union.espite all the criticisms and the various policy defeats that Kennan suffered in the early 1950âs, containment in the more general sense of blocking the expansion of Soviet influence remained the basic strategy of the United States throughout the cold war.