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Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today
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The Quality of Staff Work in the US Was Higher in the 19 Forties and Fifties Than It Is to Day
i've heard it argued that the quality of staff work in the us. Government was higher in the 19 forties and fifties than it is to day. When kennon was writing in the late 19 forties, there was so much more plasticity in us. Policy than there is on a normal basis today. I mean, these patterns that we'd become accustomed to for the last 75 years didn't exist in 19 forty seven. And so there was more room for a kind of big think, first principles analysis back then than there was later. It's probably the good stuff that sticks out to you a little bit more when you're on our nine of rummaging through
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