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Dangerous Doctrine

By Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley | September 17, 2008

During the Cold War, the United States had a clear, coherent, widely supported national security strategy that focused on containing and deterring Soviet communist expansion. In waging the war on terror, President Bush has embraced a strategy that calls for leveraging American military dominance with preventive military action.

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