Nicholas Thompson responds in this blog post to Andrew Bacevich’s article in The Washington Post about updating the Cold War doctrine of containment for the war on terrorism. He agrees that here is much in George Kennan’s original idea that could be applied to the present conflict with global jihad while suggesting that the effort be expanded to include soft power as well as traditional military based hard power. It’s nice to see the old strategies revived, after all, nothing succeeds like success.
