The idea that states compete not only by fighting wars but by creating societies which can, among other things, fight wars successfully is still very much with us today. It underlies George Kennan’s approach to containment. Kennan’s containment was the exploitation of the flawed nature of the society the Soviets wanted to build. Because the American system, at home and abroad, had more durable foundations than the brutal but ineffective Soviet model, Kennan believed that time and history was on America’s side. If we could keep the Soviets from expanding, sooner or later their system would fall apart.
One thing to remember is that while one side had it's strategy the other had theirs. The strategy was to make us more like them. A strategy, that unfortunately seems to have outlived it's creators and contiued, much to our sorrow.
I am not actually sure why this topic was posted. Anyone familiar with Kennanist idealogoy knows this. They also know that Nixon and Kissinger did more than most to cement the Soviets and the Chinese on the path to the communist culmination point.
Was this meant to introduce folks to Kennan?