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Defense Policy and the Reagan Administration: Departure from Containment

Barry R. Posen

International Security Vol 8, No. 1 (Summer 1983) (With Stephen Van Evera) [Originally published in Lieber, Oye, Rothchild, eds., The Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in Americaan Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, Fall 1983). 

When we do catch a glimpse of the Administration's grand strategy, it appears to depart from original Cold War strategic ideas and toward a more ambitious and more dangerous grand strategy.