Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938

by Stephen E. Ambrose

in the State Department, anti-Soviet feeling kept bubbling

choose between alternative ways of life.... One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and

had been cut from 8 million to 1 million men; the Navy from 3.5 million to less than 1 million; the Air Force from over 200 to less than 50 effective combat groups. As General Marshall later recalled, “I

message after radio message to give the

with somebody with over 260 and you have 1 ⅓.” Foreign policy and military policy were moving in opposite directions. Truman and his advisers wanted to meet

heroic crusades on a worldwide

America had taken an immense stride. For the first time in its history, the United States had chosen to intervene during a period of general peace in the affairs of peoples outside North and South

services, gave statutory status to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, established a National Security Council to advise the President, and created a Central Intelligence Agency to gather information and to correlate and evaluate intelligence activities around the world. Truman appointed the

in Germany had adopted a new attitude,

the grounds that a Gestapo-like organization was incompatible