The Doctrine Of Containment

The Doctrine of Containment was established under the United States as a foreign policy doctrine. This policy doctrine was called containment. It was under the American President, Harry Truman, George Kennan, Dean Acheson, and other American diplomats and policy advisors that this foreign policy doctrine was established.
The Doctrine of Containment was based upon the idea in which war would not be fought with the communist Soviet Union, and instead, the idea to cut off communism and the Soviet Union to their preexisting boundaries was established. It was during this time, and for reasons of this particular doctrine, that led to the Vietnam war. The history of containment introduces the facts that it was used to basically cut off any one country and or kingdom from its power sources and leave it with little supplies and power from surrounding allies. Kennan introduced this idea and proposed it to be used against the Soviet Union dating back to the 1940’s.
Kennan and other’s arguments within the U.S. government was that the goal of the United States should be to stop, and prevent the spread of communism to non-communist nations. How did America put this doctrine into action? America first used this doctrine with issues regarding communism and later used containment in dealing with Iraq which led to the Gulf War.
In terms of the Doctrine of Containment being utilized by the U.S. against the Soviet Union was that it became the U.S. national security policy and in this it made it possible for the U.S. to move in and contain the communism of the Soviet Union. With the Doctrine of Containment influencing the national security of America, the NSC 20/4 was approved by President Truman in November of 1948.
The Doctrine of Containment and the National Security showed evidence that the Soviet Union was motivated by its ideology to expand its influence of communism throughout the world. The doctrine also made clear the intentions of the United States and how very different the two were. This doctrine has been recognized as the first comprehensive post-war declaration of US national security policy. What sort of actions did the United States take as an implication to stop the spreading of communism and how did they put the Doctrine of Containment into play? It supplied the sectors by air for almost a year until the Soviet Union called off the blockade.
In dealing with the Gulf War and using the doctrine of Containment as a way of action, the United States went into Iraq to contain the communism and the immoral ruling of Sadaam. The United Sates had previously warned Sadaam to stop his wrong doings within communism, and in this stated, if he did not they would eventually invade and “contain” the area.
The basics to the Doctrine of Containment was that a country or a leading power will be confronted by another country in which while actions are taking place, a country will invade and contain the area of the other country, keeping and holding them from receiving power from allies that would help them. In analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the Doctrine of Containment I have come to the conclusion that the weaknesses of this doctrine are that in a way it puts the United States in a position of open attack.
This particular doctrine does this because some many think there is no reason for us to be in the business of other countries. The strength in this situation is that if we, as the United States, were not to invade and contain the situation in other countries then there would be room for many immoral movements spreading around the world. In invading other countries, we show our power in that we will not let the rulings of other countries take over what we have already established within ours.