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What New Look in Defense?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Malcolm W. Hoag
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Recalling the abrupt changes in American national security policy in 1953 and 1961, we may well ask: What New Look should we expect now? What should we want? Changes will probably emerge more temperately and slowly than they did in those years. To our friends abroad, over-sensitized as they have become to policy modifications, this prospect should be reassuring. Much as they tend to sympathize with dissent within the United States over Vietnam, they realize that our domestic furor over this tragic war threatens to induce a generalized neo-isolationism. Arguments for neo-isolationism have a powerful appeal, but tend to cloud debate about the real issues for long-term security policy choice: what doctrine, military force structure, budgets, and plans?

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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , October 1969 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1969

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