Politwoops

1/? On #ThisDayInHistory in 1953, Eisenhower approves NSC 162/2. Read More https://t.co/WhVoHnihPI via @History

2/? NSC 162/2, the New Look, was the product of Ike's competitive review of grand strategy, known as Project Solarium

3/? Solarium commissioned 3 teams (each w/ 7 of the leading thinkers of the day) to develop alternative strategies for confronting USSR

4/? The Solarium process generated consensus around Ike's alternative strategy that rejected Truman's NSC 68 and “rollback” of USSR

5/? 64 years later, Ike's NSC process, criticized at the time and later by Kennedy, is viewed as an ideal model for grand strategic planning

6/6 MKE native G. Kennan said Ike's speech at the end of Solarium demonstrated his “intellectual ascendancy over every man in the room”

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'If you don't think the same way as she does, then that's not the kind of diversity she wants' - @miablove https://t.co/CVToJKLsUr

Great meeting with @PatSnyder56 today! He's a great rep for our neck of the woods! https://t.co/o9GIpEljto

Thanks to @monicagrimaldo_ @TucsonNewsNow for alerting us about Juan Carlos's story. WATCH the original story here: https://t.co/Cn4yBwOF5F