400 american troops can’t do anything

Policymakers have been unsure what they can do to fix the problem without getting U.S. soldiers stuck in someone else’s civil war, but they nevertheless have felt compelled to do something, anything, because that is what the United States does and has always done. ..

banking on the cold war

A little-known anecdote about Truman’s 1947 call to Congress for decisive intervention in the Greek civil war—generally viewed as the official declaration of the Cold War—illustrates this point. ..

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