The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

by Elbridge A. Colby

See, e.g., Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 424; John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 37; and Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), 34.