From Strategic Culture
By Rafe Mair
"I’m getting a little long in the tooth so I can well remember the formation of the North America Treaty Association (NATO) in 1949. We studied it in High School and learned that this organization was for defence against the USSR. This appeared to be a very necessary thing for a number of reasons two of which were critical.
The famous “Long Telegram” from US envoy in the USSR George Keenan, in 1946, which spelled out the Soviet Union’s policy of expansion. This memo formed the basis of the US to “contain” the spread of communism which spawned the US sending troops to South Korea with the resultant war and to Viet Nam to fight for South Korea, which had the trappings of Democracy against the Communist North."
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