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Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today

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The National Security Council

In the 19 forties, there really was no national security state as we currently know it. At the time that the cold war begant, there had obviously been a lot of bureaucratic innovation during world war two. And so what would you see over the course of the cold war? Kind of a continual evolution of the national security state in response to shifting needs of the moment. But the evolution is also a way of sort of keeping in balance all of the imperatives of o policy in a democratic system.

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